Page 24 - Security Commitments News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Will not tolerate any kind of attack on an american service member anywhere in the region gets through to the leaders in tehran. i worry though that they have a long history of marching up this escalation ladder anytime they face the kind of strategic challenge they face right now thanks to administration's maximum pressure campaign. chris: you were very critical of president obama's failure to enforce his red line against syria after a chemical attack, saying that it raised questions about how strong security commitments and statements by the president were. president trump has repeatedly gon...

Negative. >> days before the summit, nato did just that, formally inviting macedonia to begin membership discussions, potentially becoming the 30th nation to join the international security alliance established to counter russia. >> there was no recognition by crimea of the united states. there was no reneging of u.s. security commitments. there's also no deal on syria, which was rumored in the lead up to the summit. so we saw no deliverables, no commitments. in a very practical way, a real way, nothing was lost or gained. >> the u.s. and russia already attempted a cease-fire in southwest syri...

And foremost. you know, it's about regime control as you pointed out. it's not a sort of free for all western-style capitalism that they see as the natural end stage of history. they're not looking to build condos on the beach to sell to foreigners. that's not what they w all. and so i think, again, they may see this in a very different way. already you had reports from north korean state media today emphasizing that the united states had given security commitments to north korea. they may see that, in fact, it's their possession of a nuclear weapon capable of hitting the united states which h...

You know, speaking with former cia analysts who spent years studying kim jong-un and his father and grandfather before him, what did they say? they say that even basic definitional terms don't mean the same thing. so when donald trump is talking about, well, you might even have a mcdonald's in pyongyang someday, you might have this western investment, that's not really what the regime in pyongyang is looking for first and foremost. you know, it's about regime control as you pointed out. it's not a sort of free for all western-style capitalism that they see as the natural end stage of history. ...

Not sure what his security commitments will be to his american allies, then we have to think about geography and geography is destiny and china is not going anywhere. >> let's not forget, this is the second time trump has basically taken the ball in hand from the chinese. the first is when we pull out of the tpp which is the way to ballist our way around china and bring our allies including canada closer to us and we just walked off the field. >> everything he has done has empowered china and russia. >> everything is about russia. john heilemann? >> i just, you know, the thing that was ringi...