He began by mocking Obama for comments he made in a press briefing on Thursday that he does not have a strategy yet for confronting jihadists affiliated with the group Islamic State (or ISIS) in Syria and Iraq.

“I’m sure everyone was shocked to hear this,” said Cruz.

Cruz contrasted Obama’s approach with what he said was President Ronald Regan’s “simple” Cold War strategy of “we win, they lose.”

“It’s almost as if President Obama read that and got it backwards,” Cruz said.

Cruz’s strategy for dealing with Islamic State is also simple.

“You’re dealing with monsters who are crucifying Christians and beheading American journalists, when you’re dealing with monsters who are training upwards of 100 Americans right now to come back here and visit the same terror on Americans here,” said Cruz. “Number one, we need to not let into this country any American who is fighting with ISIS. And, number two, ISIS says they want to go back and reject modernity. Well, I think we should help them. We ought to bomb them back to the stone age!”

He described the situation with ISIS as part of a larger problem where “all across this world America has receded from leadership.”

“Look at Russia right now,” Cruz said. “Sadly, the state of the world is the Russian bear is encountering the Obama kitty cat.”

Cruz said the country must do more to “stand with Israel” and confront the regime of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

“You know what? The United States of America has never been a kitty cat. The reason Putin feels no fear to march into his neighbors, the reason why our allies up and down Europe are terrified of what’s next is because this president, as he puts it, is leading from behind,” Cruz said.

According to Cruz, the U.S. should confront Putin for his push into Ukraine by “putting anti ballistic missile batteries in Poland and the Czech Republic” and approving measures to increase our national gas exports as an attack on the Russian economy.