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President being under intense scrutiny for other foreign policy matters, the with draw from afghanistan last summer, and now as he deals with a new foreign policy crisis, the tensions between russia and ukraine, and this is a moment where the pentagon can say this was at this point in time was a success based on the ultimate outcome. cory, that s what i want to ask you about. we watched the unfolding events in afghanistan, and we watched the drone strike which we told at the time killed a terrorists, killed somebody who was plotting an attack against u.s. soldiers, but it was not, it was civilians and a family and kids. did that factor into how this was done today? i know john kirby was asked about it at the pentagon and he kind of danced around it and said we always try to limit civilian casualties. i think that s true. i think the american military ....
In crimea and in donbas, u.s. officials and u.s. officials really underestimated how far he was willing to go. similarly when he intervened in syria, the u.s. really didn t see that coming. so the biden white house is trying to show us we re ready for anything, but also worried what is it we may be missing. kim, ambassador mcfall and others make the point on this show every time they re here, nobody knows what putin s going to do, not even necessarily putin before he does it. i take michael s point, the planning is plenty to showcase what i think folks around biden believe is one of his strong assets. these decades of experience on foreign policy matters. decades long relationships with some of the other leaders on the world stage, but the unpredictability of putin does always leave everyone reacting and responding to putin. that s true and there are ....
Benefits of globalization, trade and technology and travel, and that is increasingly impoverished and weakened over the years. the erosion of democracy here in the u.s. and around the world has become more and more apparent over the past few years. is the reaction to the invasion proof that democracy still has a fighting chance? well, i hope so. i think democracy has more than a fighting chance. and of course russia has been one of those, if not the chief external source that s been trying to meddle in democracies abroad so as to divide what it believes to be its adversaries. but what you saw, for example, at the state of the union address last night, for all the divisions on domestic policy and even some foreign policy matters, both at home in the united states and in democracies around the world in europe, in western hemisphere and asia and elsewhere, there is a desire to not see autocracy and aggression ....