Natalie Winters

has significantly expanded involvement, not just from a defense industrial base, munitions, artillery, weapons perspective, but also just seems like maybe a reorientation of focusing on that region a little bit more.

How do you think that affects Xi's calculus in Taiwan?

From CNMI to Guam to Diego Garcia to all of these sort of, not niche in the geopolitical sense, but niche in the traditional Western media sense, places that you've spent a lot of time.

And I think there's an extremely high and outsized ROI on investing there and securing those areas and rooting out PRC infiltration.

What would you tell the Trump administration are those little edge case situations, which maybe don't catch a bunch of media headlines, but that the result or return that they would get from really deploying, whether it's resources or political capital or just attention to these areas, they could really shore up some security in ensuring that the PRC is less likely to do something more in the kinetic spectrum in Taiwan?

Cleo, it's always an honor to have you on.

You bring us the cutting edge information that we certainly need to know.

And I think that's a great recommendation.

If people want to follow you, stay up to date with everything you've got going on, where can they go to do that?

There we go.

Thank you so much for joining us.

We always appreciate having you on.

Thank you.

Thank you.

We've got a few minutes before we're going to jump to break, but I don't want to spare any of the time that we have with our next guest, Brian Kennedy, who joins us now, formerly of Claremont, of all things.

You guys have really been putting out some, I think, wonderful resources, making the case available.

For the Iran war, there's some people who have differing opinions, but I think it's important to have robust discussions about it.

And I think what Claremont and certain magazines have been putting out really is some wonderful materials.

I'd love to get your thoughts on the ceasefire, if it actually is one, what you think the future of it looks like.

And I don't know if you were able to see President Trump's recent comments just right there in the gaggle talking about the Strait of Hormuz, obviously inextricably linked.