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>> there is a land bridge from iran to iraq to syria. its one of the things i am opposed to we dont want that land bridge forming. the threat to israel is real we did not disagree with the presidents decision because they have not had a president as supportive of israel in generations as president trump is. they were taken back by his discussion - - decision. >> do you think war is inevitable? when we come back. smile dad.

Mark: but yet there they are in syria, they are developing weapons systems and hypersonic weapons as are the chinese. is putin just a narrative and/or a serious problem? is the also building alliances with the chinese? and they are adversaries to be sure. and because of putins aggressiveness and lack of patience it is a near-term threat with the economic burdens and that becomes much more of the mother load as time goes on and in that capacity to wage a war.

Mark: but yet there they are in syria, they are developing weapons systems and hypersonic weapons as are the chinese. is putin just a narrative and/or a serious problem? is the also building alliances with the chinese? and they are adversaries to be sure. and because of putins aggressiveness and lack of patience it is a near-term threat with the economic burdens and that becomes much more of the mother load as time goes on and in that capacity to wage a war.

Cases, have special capabilities that the united states doesnt have. in the event we have to fight that war, were not going to be disadvantaged. but heres the key thing. china wants to avoid conflict with united states so they have developed what i am calling operations to conduct operations below the level of conflict that will get them the same results that conflict would get which is what geopolitical control and influence. south china sea, east china sea, areas around japan and taiwan are al...

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They saw desert storm, 1991 the prowess of the united states. before that we had been involved in vietnam on low technology. we recovered from that largely due to the reagan administration which got us on a proper footing with the soviet union and upscaled all our military capabilities. the american people didnt really know how good we got until he saw that. guess what. so did russia and southern china and both of them. as a result of that and the iraq invasion in 2003 was another data point for...

So we have a situation, we have leaders who are not forced to reckon with strategy and adaptability. we have enemies like china and russia who do, they grasp the new rules of war. we are playing by wars old rules. we think that if there is going to be a war with china or if there is going to be a war with russia, it will be fought like conventional war. it wont. theres ten new rules of war, the first of which is conventional war is dead. theres nothing more unconventional today than a convention...

Mindset. >> but, still, can we win in afghanistan? im curious what that looks like and, quite frankly, what winning in syria looks like as well. but just to answer the question what does it look like in afghanistan and can we? >> didnt you hear me dodging your question, mika? >> yeah, i did. i went right after you. >> yeah. to a degree i think that we can, but what does it look like? it looks like something where afghanistan, the people of afghanistan, which i think includes the taliban, they co...

We really are, we are in an age of complexity when were trying to deal with these extraordinarily difficult problems and we are trying to do it with traditional methods, traditional tools at hand because its what we built, its how we trained our people and its how we as a people sometimes think. we want to start a war, advance across europe, take berlin and then declare victory. in this age thats not going to happen, nor are we going to have an age in which you have a failure of politics and the...

Ventura and jamie lee curtis criticized the president as if it is his fault. rachel: i heard the word north korea more over the last year and i heard the last eight years to more signal to me this is a big problem donald trump decided to take on. its a hard like you said he was dealt a tough fan, but this is a president whos not trying to kick this down the road. they actually give credit to the president for the meetings coming up better a little bit of a break. pete: if youre willing to embrac...