George Friedman
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3,185 appearances
9 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 13 Aug
George Friedman’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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That l reduces the effectiveness of the force.
The more you have to disperse the force, the less powerful it is at any one place.
So, in that sense, this has a fundamental impact on the military.
It also creates a situation in which if the Chinese decide to have a border dispute with the Indians
Is that guaranteed?
But it's possible that the Australians, the Indonesians, or the Japanese might want to do something about it.
In other words, they can no longer discount the idea of a coordinated
defense in the event one of them is attacked.
It's not guaranteed that it'll be there.
But now Charter has to take that in as a possibility.
About
Access to an ocean.
The islands matter a lot.
So the United States, for example, Philippines was not involved in this particular thing.
The United States has four bases on the Philippines.
On the whole it's a string of islands, okay?
But it's a very dangerous string of islands being located where it is, between Japan and Australia.
Potentially blocking that.
So you put that in there, there is a cordon sanitaire in a way developing.
And these small islands are very important.
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