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I forgot the name. they are ranked number one in terms of the capabilities on cyber. in the capabilities on cyber. in the next layer down, included russia and china and the uk, number of five eyes countries. it is difficult to get the numbers for actual clarified budget, but there are certainly thousands of people working on this in the us and just cyber command alone that are on the offensive hacking side, the budget over there is $600 million approximately, that is a classified budget, you get...

Part china keeps expanding its military reach in the pacific. beijing has fully militarized three islands it built in the south china sea, and china could be negotiating a deal with documents that appears to be leaked from the island government. the deal could lead to chinese forces deployed in the south pacific nation, a few hours of flight time from australia. a military base with defensive capabilities could follow. meanwhile the chinese foreign minister dropped by kabul on tuesday to meet wi...

Eastern european countries and is looking at continuing reinforcing the capability of nato to defend, as the president put it, every inch of nato territory. its also, i think, important that we are continuing to flow really large amounts of weapons back into ukraine to help them. it may not be everything that the ukrainians are asking for, but it is everything they need to keep the fight going and to continue to take the fight to the russians. anti-tank weapons, air defense capabilities of all k...

Defense spend. >> the trans-atlantic foreign policy think tank, their head said yesterday that chances to increase spending and reverse dangerous cuts around forces will be welcomed in the kremlin. do you think that that would have filtered through, that the president putin will have -- >> completely, he was very, they see where our investments, are where were looking to build up -- capabilities but also britain has a card to get other nations to step forward with us but we can only do that if w...

Has not been an amphibious assault from the black sea fleet. the soviet forces are not working together in an integrated fashion the way the u.s. does routinely with nato. its just been unbelievable to watch this. >> so as we are seeing those deficiencies, we are also seeing putin ramp up the brutality specifically targeting civilians. does that then change the calculus for how the u.s. and allies militarily support ukraines fight? >> yes, i think it does. some good things are being done. some g...

Countries. its not enough to trade with them but we actually need to have some serious military capabilities underpinning a serious military alliance. >> so we have a situation with -- with the u.s. president will be at this nato summit and his -- his main goal from the very get-go has been unity. trying to keep this alliance together. um, and that unity could be tested i guess in the coming days or weeks should there be this stepped-up russian military offensive inside ukraine leading to a lot ...

Anxiety. i speak to folks there on a daily basis. they dont think this is anywhere near done. theyre taking -- thats one of the biggest intelligence gaps for the u.s. side, is how well the ukrainian forces are holding pup theyre doing a superbly well in battle but taking losses. losses in artillery and thats a particularly painful loss because thats how a lot of casualties on the russian side get inflicted. they need to be resupplied. back to the question of what they need. as they start losing ...

Four objectives coming in here. they wanted to seize the capital in order to displace the ukrainian government, mr. zelenskyy. they wanted to subjugate the nation of ukraine by defeating its army, either encircling it or -- or destroying it. number three, they wanted to further divide nato. and number four, their fourth strategic objective was to try and further divide the united states while, at the same time, increasing their economic capabilities to europe through oil. they have failed in all...

>> i want you the take a listen to what national white house security adviser jake sullivan said today on "meet the press." take a listen. >> do you still consider migs to be offensive weapons and not defensive? >> the military, the pentagon seized the migs, the fighter jets as offensive weapons. be the key thing here is that president biden looked at the assessment of our intelligence community, took the advice of his military commanders, consulted with his nato allies and ultimately determined...

Modernize their capabilities, continue to bully their neighbors, coerce other nations in the region and to continue to expand the militarization of the western pacific, that cannot be ignored and nor will it be by this department. i know everybody wants us to rack and stack. we have been very honest. china is the pacing challenge. russia, we still assess as an acute threat. i understand the interest in the adjectives here. >> it would be imprudent not to characterize the threat and again, look a...