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Speaker 1: Since January, there have already been four large scale US

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Speaker 1: and British joint air strikes on Houthie targets in Yemen,

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Speaker 1: including one hundred and fifty missiles and launchers, which appear

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Speaker 1: to have done little to slow down the Houthis. The

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Speaker 1: Houti missile attacks aimed at commercial vessels and US Navy

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Speaker 2: Almost daily, almost daily since our retaliation, and despite the

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Speaker 2: President saying don't Also, as Martha Raddits reported on ABC News, yesterday,

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Speaker 2: was the first time a Hoothy attack has killed anybody

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Speaker 2: on those ships. Three crew members on a Liberian ship dead.

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Speaker 2: The US is headed there with more help. I guess

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Speaker 2: I don't know what we're going to do to slow

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Speaker 2: this down. One of the most important shipping lanes in

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Speaker 2: the entire.

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Speaker 3: World, A troubling number of hotspots around the globe, including

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Speaker 3: that one Jack just mentioned. Let's talk about it with

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Speaker 3: CNN military analyst Mike Lyons.

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Speaker 2: Mike, it's always a pleasure.

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Speaker 4: How are you taking one of you guys? Great to

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Speaker 4: be back.

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Speaker 2: Well, so far our deterrence has not deterred anything.

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Speaker 4: What now, No, it's not really even deterrence. I know

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Speaker 4: we're going after some of the targets there, and we've

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Speaker 4: taken away a significant amount of their military capability, but

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Speaker 4: they still seem to have enough to leak through. We

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Speaker 4: saw the incident happening yesterday where three were killed, and

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Speaker 4: we see the Indian Navy getting involved also in rescuing

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Speaker 4: some of the members here. But for all practical purposes,

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Speaker 4: that that pathways blocked, supply chains continue to be disrupted,

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Speaker 4: costs continue to climb. Other countries around the region remain affected,

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Speaker 4: and until perhaps maybe other countries we'll put more pressure

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Speaker 4: on them. But the hoot, these are wildcards, and they

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Speaker 4: have this military capacity, and it's going to take us

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Speaker 4: completely degrading its and our allies completely degrading it in

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Speaker 4: order for us to, let's say, the Red Sea gets

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Speaker 3: It sounds kind of old timey to be talking about this,

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Speaker 3: but the free navigation of the ocean's waters has been

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Speaker 3: one of the prime movers in history, and it seems

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Speaker 3: like the global economy is not going to put up

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Speaker 3: with this sort of interference with that forever. What would

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Speaker 3: a serious response look.

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Speaker 4: Like, Well, I think that the way it's going. First

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Speaker 4: of all, we saw a ship hit and we saw

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Speaker 4: But it's going it's likely taking impacting China, impacting uh

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Speaker 4: other other economies. You know, this is not who these

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Speaker 4: are claiming. This is against the United States and Israel.

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Speaker 4: But you saw the nationalities on board of that ship

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Speaker 4: that they attacked. It's Vietnamese, Sria, Lanka and philipp Filipino

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Speaker 4: and uh more of you know kind of of the

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Speaker 4: you know Eastern you know, Asian countries there. What's that

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Speaker 4: going to take It's it's likely you know more more

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Speaker 4: or less these other these other third world countries deciding

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Speaker 4: and and and real just leadership. You know, there's not

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Speaker 4: a coalition really in there that's deciding to go after

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Speaker 4: on a consistent basis every six hours, launching sorties in

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Speaker 4: musle capability that the Houthis have. And because the downside

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Speaker 4: is that they're hurting that country themselves. That Yemen is

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Speaker 4: one of the most impoverished countries there as this as well.

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Speaker 4: So there's just no upside to any of the situation

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Speaker 2: Well, broadening out from just the Houthies. I don't know

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Speaker 2: if you saw Tom Friedman's call them in the New

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Speaker 4: Yeah, no question, And we saw we've seen some of

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Speaker 4: the attacks on the land based forces inside of Iraq

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Speaker 4: There's there's an Iranian navigation ship that's in the area

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Speaker 4: So we warn the Iranians once again, if that doesn't stop,

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Speaker 4: all Reagan did that in the nineteen eighties. But again,

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Speaker 4: this administration just does not want to admit any kind

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Speaker 4: and that's the future conflict. That's what's getting kicked. That's

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't want to get into a shot after

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Speaker 3: But I was about to turn to the increasing belligerence

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Speaker 4: Yeah, this administration history is going to show that it

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Speaker 4: really know what it is. It's the whip sawing of

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Speaker 4: military assets to get some of that humanitarian aid. Same

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Speaker 4: thing that's happening in China. We've kind of drawn this

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Speaker 4: I think they're really concerned about that. And then everything's

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Speaker 4: a half measure when it comes to all these other

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Speaker 4: acts of deterrence, and what's happening still in Ukraine remains

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Speaker 4: a situation there that you know, I think ninety two

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Speaker 4: no priority from this administration. We won't We'll hear us

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Speaker 4: But everything's a half measure, and the whip sawing going

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Speaker 2: Speaking of Ukraine, a Russian missile hits one hundred yards

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Speaker 4: No, I think coincidence, But still that target and Odessa.

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Speaker 4: There is the next you know, kind of strategic you know,

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Speaker 4: not sure where what that was all about. But but

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Speaker 4: and a lot of it this doesn't have a lot

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Speaker 4: of a lot of it is about capability. Only one

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Speaker 4: a sixty billion dollar backstop from the United States. That

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Speaker 4: doesn't send money to Ukraine. But what it does is

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Speaker 3: I think it's notable and worth mentioning that if you

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Speaker 4: Jack.

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Speaker 3: You have more on Ukraine with Mike CNN military analyst

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Speaker 3: Mike Lyons on the line. Mike, I wanted to segue

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Speaker 3: to Israel real quickly and putting aside morality or how

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Speaker 3: palatable any of this is. Just from a historians perspective,

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Speaker 3: this looks like when you combine what's going on with

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Speaker 3: just the nature of the way the war is being conducted.

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Speaker 3: This is one civilization saying we can no longer live

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Speaker 3: within us, another one at least with any power right

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Speaker 3: next door to us. This is something like total warfare.

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Speaker 4: I think so, and we're both sides talking past each other,

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Speaker 4: and when the US continues to talk about rules based

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Speaker 4: That's not happening, and it's real. It's not stopping until

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Speaker 4: and says, we surrender, and these are the conditions, and

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Speaker 4: this is how it's going to go forward. There. They're

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Speaker 4: and goes a little further, if it's going to take

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Speaker 4: every last Palestinian, that's what their that's what their mentality is,

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Speaker 4: and so it is. It is total war from their perspective,

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Speaker 4: and they're going to They're doing what they can in

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Speaker 4: order to keep civilian casualties at a minimum. But as

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Speaker 4: long as the mosqu keeps hiding behind civilians and hiding

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Speaker 3: Military analyst Mike lines, Mike, thanks a Milian for the time.

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Speaker 3: Really interesting. We appreciate it.

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Speaker 4: Thanks guy, Thanks for me.

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