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smith. >> john: im john roberts. the story with martha starts rights now. >> martha: good afternoon. im martha maccallum. right now breaking on "the story," israels prime minister saying the fight in gaza is the second war of end. he calls it an existential battle. any calls for a cease fire, he says, would be a surrender as idf expands their ground operation and rescues an israeli soldier who was kidnapped october 7th. a huge development this afternoon. they have vowed to carry out mo...

US naval forces have engaged with Houthi militants as part of deterence mission

The US Department of Defense has four areas of focus in the Middle East. Source: Pentagon spokesman Pat Ryder; Pentagon Details: The goals of the US are the following: Protection of US forces and citizens in the region.

In April 2023, Canberra released the public version of its Defence Strategic Review (DSR).

What do the governments of other US allies, including Hungary, Norway, the Philippines etc. possess that Australian governments do not?

Delivered to allies and partners on saturday. when all this unfolded with mr. prigozhin he got on the phone and talked to our allies and partners and said weve got to stay focused on ukraine. i think theres speculation about whether wagner is going to go into belarus and whether from belarus theyre going to be able to conduct attacks and operate inside ukraine. we certainly respect president zelenskyy as commander in chief and his ability to make decisions on his force posture as he sees fit. i ...

Far as they did, and moreover, moscow is— far as they did, and moreover, moscow is reliant on the wagner group _ moscow is reliant on the wagner group to— moscow is reliant on the wagner group to operate its foreign policy in many— group to operate its foreign policy in many parts of the world, so without — in many parts of the world, so without wagner they are at a major loss _ without wagner they are at a major loss 50 _ without wagner they are at a maor loss, ,, ., ., without wagner t...

Will Australian athletes face a similar ban on participation in the Olympics for their government’s wars of aggression?

The chinese government and in some cases even the chinese people see taiwan as a part of china and dont want to wait and understand that peaceful reunification is not possible, and for those reasons i think it is possible that china would try to attack taiwan and the only reason that xi jinping might be cautious in doing so is if he feels like a victory could not be easy and quick, and that is where the united states and its allies and partners could come in if they decided to make significant c...

Memo from a four star general who had put in writing that in his view the us would be at war by 2025. republican michael mccaul said "i hope the general is wrong but i think he is right." it should be stressed that neither comment would represent in any way the position of the pentagon. but it does underline the concern at the highest levels of the us military, over a future attempt by china to exert control over taiwan, which beijing claims as its territory. and with that threat in mind, the un...