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Speaker 1: recently and when Chinese leaders Hi Jimpang and Russian President

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Speaker 1: down in Ukraine right now fighting Russia. We're depleting our military, arsenal,

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Speaker 1: can even win. So what does all of this mean

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Speaker 1: for the United States. Rebecca Koffler is a strategic military

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Speaker 1: author of the book Putin's Playbook, So go check that out.

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Speaker 1: Stay tuned for Rebecca Koffler. So, Rebecca, Chinese leader Shi

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Speaker 1: The takeaways are huge, Lisa, First, if I may let

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Speaker 1: me read your quote of what She Jinping told Putin

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Speaker 1: changes a taking place now that haven't happened in a

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Speaker 1: Putin responded, agreed, So here the takes the takeaways. First,

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Speaker 1: So Putin specifically kind of signaled to she that China

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Speaker 1: if you're Will. So what they were strategizing about is

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Speaker 1: planning to replace the dollar with the petra Yuan is

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Speaker 1: theater war. And my intelligence assessment is that she would

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Speaker 1: You know, we're often told, Rebecca that, look, we have

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Speaker 1: and I heard you talk about this or not on

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Speaker 1: and it's reflected in that assessment. Basically, the Iranians are

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Speaker 1: need it. Rebecca Kaffler, I appreciate your time. Thanks for

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Speaker 1: God bless America. Like you said, let's pray we get

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Speaker 1: That was Rebecca Coffler with a very informative assessment of

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