Ian Bremmer

Defense Department is on these issues, is on AI and is on defense capabilities with drones and all of those things.

I think a lot is being spent there.

But I also know that the DOD is a very slow moving entity.

And it's you know, it's got a lot of mouths to feed, a lot of constituents in Congress with jobs that are committed to legacy programs that are not relevant to U.S.

national security in another five years time, whether it's submarines or last generation bomber jets.

And the U.S.

is just not going to pivot fast enough.

No way.

You would need leadership that is much more willing to move fast and break things.

And, you know, there are people like that that are giving a lot of money to the Trump campaign and whose companies are getting big contracts.

That's happening.

But Pete Hegseth is not that.

And most of the existing generals and admirals are not that.

And Congress that is ultimately securing funds for defense is not that.

So I suspect that the answer to this is gonna be wait till there's a crisis and then we respond.

Number one, Trump has not yet, as of this moment, responded to what Ukraine has done.

There'll be a press conference.

He'll be asked that question.

So we need to know whether this was a surprise to Trump and he's angry at the Ukrainians or whether the Americans actually knew about it, had the intelligence and may not have approved it, but certainly didn't try to stop it.

That is an important piece of information in determining how Trump is or is not going to deal with