"We’ve talked way too much to him," Fiorina said during the debate held at the Roland Reagan Presidential Library in California on Wednesday night, adding that, if elected president, she would carry out aggressive military maneuvers in the Balkans and rebuild US missile defense forces in Poland.
"What I would do immediately, I would begin rebuilding the Sixth Fleet, I would begin rebuilding the missile defense program in Poland, I would also conduct military exercises in the Baltic states, I’d probably send a few thousand more troops to Germany," she said.
Fiorina added that she would send weapons to arm the Kurds against Islamic State (IS) militants and would supply US bombs to Jordan.
"We could give the Jordanians what they’ve asked for, bombs and material. We have not supplied it, I will," she added. "We could arm the Kurds; they have been asking for this for three years. This is in our control."
Moscow’s relations with the United States have deteriorated dramatically since 2014 over Crimea's reunification with Russia and the ongoing Ukraine crisis.
Russia has repeatedly expressed concerns over NATO's recent military buildup along its borders. According to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, the "Cold War mindset" still prevails in the bloc, which ceased what it refers to as "practical cooperation" with Russia in April 2014, when the armed confrontation in Ukraine's southeast began.
