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Huge self-defense capability. south korea, australia, taiwan as a quarter million people on the active reserve military. so we should assume with wise policy that we will deter chinese aggression. it will be trouble, but tracy as you pointed out earlier, he -- to add potentially nine more intermittent u.s. bases to complete the island chain deterrents of china. so we are not going to go to war with china unless there is a terrible miscalculation by the pla. >> tracey walter and general barry mcc...

Capability. we have allies of japan, with a huge self-defense capability. of south korea, australia. taiwan has a couple million people on the reserve. so we should assume, with a wise policy. that we will deter chinese aggression, it will be trouble. lloyd austin pointed out earlier that this completed a very successful trip to the philippines, to add potentially nine more intermittent u.s. bases to complete the island train and the appearance of china. so we will go to war with china unless th...

Iran? >> i dont think that thats the russian intent. were focused on the other threats as well. general mackenzie is in the middle east right now and he just visited the emirates to talk about additional self-defense capability that might need additional resources. we have a very robust presence in the endo pacific. were watching pyongyang and their continued pursuit of nuclear weapons and increasing ballistic missile precision. all of these things are happening at once. youre right about that. ...

The infrastructure to support that. before making a move like that. the backlash from that would be too severe. and the thing i have been saying, if we want to be able to heat our homes right now. then we cannot exclude russia from swift so quickly. >> general, i want to ask you more about the idea of ukraine fighting this on their own. i want to put up a map of the nato alliance. ukraine is surrounded by nato countries. nato countries are by treaty compelled to defend each other. but no one is ...

Will not get ahead of decisions and options that the president is going to consider. so i dont want you to read more or listen to that, louis, im not trying to signal that something is in the offering. back to my answer to tom, we provided tens of millions of dollars in the last year, less than a year to assist ukraine in self-defense capability. as the secretary himself said, we will constantly review that and look at that and make whatever appropriate recommendations going forward. but i will ...

Of our views. >> so are you sayings that the united states would come to taiwans defense. >> yes. >> if they are attacked. >> yes we have a commitment to do that. >> president biden is deeply committed to the taiwan relations act. the united states will continue to assist taiwan in maintaining sufficient self-defense capability. there is no change in a policy. >> bret: essentially had to walk that back. and then you have the -- word game played out. "the washington post." the united states has v...

No one is above the law and so we intend to move quickly. >> now, mainland china says military exercises in the taiwan str strait are necessary to, quote, defend national sovereignty. this comes amid tensions between beijing and taipei and they call the actions toward taiwan destabilizing. >> we do remain concerned by the prcs provocative military activity. we are your honoring beijing to cease this military diplomatic and economic pressure in the coercion against taiwan. we have an abiding inte...

Stability— abiding interest in peace and stability across the taiwan strait. thats _ stability across the taiwan strait. thats why — stability across the taiwan strait. thats why well continue to assist in taiwan— thats why well continue to assist in taiwan and maintaining a sufficient _ in taiwan and maintaining a sufficient self—defense capability. china _ sufficient self—defense capability. china has— sufficient self—defense capability. china has told the us in response to that ...

>> we anticipate the use of additional military airlift as required and were working through the requirements for that right now. these infantry battalions come with some measure of self-defense equipment. mortars, machine guns and of course personally carried weaponry. they have self-defense capability. i wont detail what each battalion will be carrying with them. they will obviously have the capabilities to defend themselves. one term that weve heard is noncombatant operations. sending 3,000 p...

Very specific assets that took the drone down. very limed in scope and the key is -- the essential thing the united states and coalition partners had to assure is there wasnt any type of threatening posture that would give the iranians some type of indication that was a broader larger scale military engagement, but it would be very precise. >> and again those targets presumably somewhere on the coast of iran itself there. >> absolutely, john. and on iranian territory. and the missiles that were ...