Bill Roggio
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first heard Nov 2024
last heard 8 Aug
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Wars are ultimately battles of wills at some point. And Hamas has will, the Israelis have will, but do the Israelis have enough will to stay in the hornet's nest of Gaza?
Yeah, I think we saw that develop. That's what developed over the summer of last year, right? The Israelis need more than that. Here's the issue, right? And we talked about this before. You could deal with the symptoms of Iran's axis of resistance, but they're not actually getting to the core of the problem. And that's the Iranian government.
That's the Iranian regime, the Mullah-led regime that seeks the destruction of Israel. And until that's Look, I'm not going to tell you that certainly the Israelis can't do that on their own. I don't advise the US to do it, but I believe there's ways that could be done, or means, paths that could be explored to weaken the Iranian regime further.
How about crippling their energy production, destroying the Iranian Navy? There are things that the Iranians do not want to look weak at home. That really, that is something that concerns them. And yet there's been very little effort to put that kind of pressure on the Iranians.
Yeah, it's a very concerning situation. Look, I find that the Biden administration... clearing the cranes use of long range strike weapons into Russia in between, you know, as it's going to transfer transition power to a Trump administration that has talked about negotiations to just be. You know, I don't I don't even know how to describe that. vindictive.
I don't know what the right word is, Mike, but it's it's unseemly at the least. It seems to be an attempt to sabotage Trump administration policies. If after almost three years of war, the Biden administration wasn't going to prove the the long range strike capacity for U.S. weapons, why would it do so now? And to me, it's only the only reason so is to complicate
Things for an incoming Trump administration.
they've pegged both of those decisions to the north korean presence right suddenly that was the game changer from their perspective that's what they're saying so did you is there any credibility in that from your perspective it's an awful excuse the north koreans are providing what 10 000 troops to the combat look i'm no fan of putin or his invasion of of the ukraine it's illegal it's immoral all of those things
But, you know, look, Westerners have volunteered to fight in the ranks of the Ukrainian military. It's that kind of war. I don't understand how Ukraine or how North Koreans in a limited capacity all of a sudden clears the decks for the U.S. to approve long range strike capability for U.S. missiles for something that bothers and.
caused the Russian to use an intermediate range ballistic missile that is equipped to use nuclear warheads to fire it on Ukraine. And, you know, this is that the point I was going to make is that we're just seeing an escalation here. And I warned about this from the very the day one of this war. This is an administration that couldn't manage a war with the Taliban.
with a third rate militia that we've elevated into a regional power in Central Asia. And we think that it can manage a war with nuclear implications
in uh you know against the nuclear power and that that's very disturbing where is joe biden what is he you know look i i try to leave them i believe i i can answer that question yeah i can answer that question i believe he's still in the amazon uh yeah the last i saw he was walking into the forest all joking aside i mean you know he was shoved aside to run for president because of this
This administration should, you know, tread water in Ukraine and hand over the policy to an incoming Trump administration. You know, two months before leaving office, it's going to risk nuclear escalation. I find this to be both disturbing and irresponsible at the same time.
Yeah, I mean, that certainly is possible. I think that the Kursk, the Ukrainian presence in Kursk is... Well, it's just a matter of time before the Ukrainians lose their foothold in Russia. The Russians are determined to take it back. I have a feeling that this isn't one that Putin will negotiate for. I think it's a matter of honor for Putin and for the Russians to retake that territory. So
You know, one of the arguments I'm hearing about for permitting the long range strike capabilities is to force the Russians to the table, right, to get them to negotiate a settlement. But the Ukrainians insist that the only settlement they'll accept is full Russian withdrawal. That's not going to happen. It's not. Absolutely not. And then the argument is, well, Putin's not going to negotiate.
He wants to take the whole of Ukraine or split Ukraine or he's not going to. So if you're not going to be able to get Putin to the table, how does launching missiles, which, by the way, may have the opposite effect. of what you think. It may harden Putin and it may harden the Russian people to fight harder to dismantle a Ukrainian government. The fact is, is the Ukrainians are losing.
And I don't like this. You know, I keep making these arguments, Mike, because it sounds I'll get accused of being pro Putin for this, but We have to look at the reality on the ground. Ukraine is a country with a quarter population, probably more like a fifth at this point, given all the exodus of people from Ukraine.
The fifth of the population of Russia does not have its own industrial capability. Russia is a nuclear armed country. It has a large economy with petroleum and other exports. It has a large manufacturing base. It makes its own weapons. These are all stacked against Russia.
against Ukraine, we could provide a limited number of weapons systems, even the long range strike systems that we send to the Ukrainians. There's only so many of them that we can send. So they're going to have limited capacity. This war was always stacked against Ukraine.
Ukraine would have been wise to take whatever kind of deal it could and then revamped and rearmed for whatever future conflict may come. Thinking that we're going to drive the Russians to the table by allowing low range strike capabilities for a limited number of missiles and rockets is just it's fantasy to me.
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