Americans may be tired of war, but that doesn’t mean they want to duck foreign conflicts entirely, Sen. Ted Cruz (R., Texas) said at Wednesday’s Capital Journal launch event at Washington’s St. Regis hotel.

The U.S., Mr. Cruz said, should have been more forceful in the early days of the Ukraine crisis. He also proposed a program to export liquid natural gas to Ukraine and said shrinking the U.S. military is a mistake.