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Increasing as the war goes on. the ground report is that the russians are pulling their troops out in the north and becoming more active in the donbas and there and the south will be where the battle is. yesterday that's what the rn battle will be so the weapons going into the battle are crucial. so it not surprising to hear the same song, give us more weapons. it's not as easy as just handing over a system with an operational manual. these are quite complex weapons that often involve or require joint war fighting, coordination between air and ground. so it's just not as easy as handing them o...

North korea said that they launched their first hypersonic missile last year. they say that north korea has as recently as just a few weeks ago said that they're working on new missile developments for war fighting. this is the trajectory that north korea was headed in. the context here is also important. the biden administration has not had any diplomatic contact substantively with the north koreans. they have made overtures, they haven't been responded to, and i'm told that u.s. officials don't plan to reach out to north korea anytime between now and march. that's because in march there's a ...

Behaviour, at this point it's sort of overtaken by events. the first russia is assembling around ukraine really renders anything the us could deliver almost irrelevant in terms of the war fighting that could occur. it is unlikely to affect vladimir putin's calculus in terms of the deterrence and if we get to the point where there is a ukrainian insurgency, russia is occupying large parts of the country, any marginal costs imposed on russian occupiers by ukrainian insurgents will be nothing compared to the cost borne by ukrainians so i don't think we should wish for that kind of an outcome but ...

Evidence of a continued russian buildup, including on the border with belarus so that is, russian troops in belarus on the border with ukraine, and these us and uk allegations this week of russian plans to essentially oust the elected government in kyiv. what about the us military assistance to ukraine. how effective are that? so i think it is an important symbol of us support but as a measure to effect russia's calculus or behaviour, at this point, it is sort of overtaken by events, so to speak. the force that russia is assembling around ukraine really renders anything that the us could deliv...

Which is at the bottom of the south china sea. china says it wants that plane whereas the us has a lot of technology in it. what can you tell us? >> well, the biden administration is obsessed with their multi trillion dollar transformative progressive domestic agenda. the last budget they submitted for defense was a real term, and next years budget will be worse. they want to cut hard power while investing in progressive projects at home. all of that is messing up the balance of power in the pacific. our priority force in that theater, the navy, is particularly hit hard and to add insult to in...