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Speaker 1: Take away, guys, great to be back. A year ago,

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Speaker 1: interest in the United States is interest to have a

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Speaker 1: I mean, I know the people are a Pentagon are like, yeah,

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Speaker 1: let's go keep it up, keep smashing them, because the

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Speaker 1: more of the Russian military gets destroyed, the lesser threat

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Speaker 1: they become. Down the road. I think the Chinese feel

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Speaker 1: the same way about Russia as well. Interesting, Yeah, we

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Speaker 1: could talk for a day and a half about the

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Speaker 1: China's relationship with Russia, not just the obvious day to

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Speaker 1: day stuff, but the historical nature and their shared border

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Speaker 1: and the rest of it. But perhaps another time military

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Speaker 1: analyst to Mike Lyons, Mike, it's always enjoyable. Thanks a million,

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Speaker 1: thanks guy, Thanks for me. Yeah, that's what you opened

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Speaker 1: the show with. As people, countries and people do what's

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Speaker 1: in their national interest and maybe the whole war of attrition,

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Speaker 1: we're in this for the long haul. Our national interest

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Speaker 1: is wearing down the Russian military and depleting them, spending

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Speaker 1: them into oblivion. Oh yeah, absolutely, that's absolutely a part

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Speaker 1: is they do take the long view. They're often wildly wrong,

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Speaker 1: but they have the discipline to think about their grandchildren

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Speaker 1: in a way that American politics is just abysmal. At again,

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Speaker 1: their system is unspeakably terrible communism and the way they

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Speaker 1: see humanity, but at least they have some discipline to it.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, it's entirely possible they're in bed with Russia

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Speaker 1: to prop up Russia to get good and bled dry.

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Speaker 1: China is clearly the hedgemon that means the hard ass

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Speaker 1: in that part of the world. Yeah, one thing, and

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Speaker 1: I didn't I didn't want to get off track on this.

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Speaker 1: But the one thing I don't get is the argument.

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Speaker 1: And this has been going on for a year now.

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Speaker 1: Now if we give them this it takes training and

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Speaker 1: it would take two months to get out. Well, a

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Speaker 1: don't understand the argument of it take and take month.

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Speaker 1: It'd be a six months before they'd be in the

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Speaker 1: would seem that we have the time. Yeah, let's plant

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Speaker 1: the oak tree today and see what happens. Yeah. I

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Speaker 1: don't quite get that argument, but you hear it a

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