Randy Manner

Correct.

Okay.

So what happens from here then?

I think this is something where we would be hopeful that there would be continued de-escalation.

The problem is, is the Israelis still are using as they always have.

They are defending themselves and also quite frankly, attacking other neighbors to be able to secure their frontiers.

And that of course means the United States is powerless

in trying to provide any incentive to Israel, unfortunately.

I think it's very possible.

The attack by the Iranians recently on the Kuwaiti airport, I've been in that airport, the attacks in Bahrain, I've been there at the US naval base.

These are all very serious offences and the United States has responded in kind

This is an extremely fragile situation, which of course does nothing to be able to lower gas and oil prices around the world.

I tell you what, it is an embarrassment as a person who has devoted 36 years of my life in service to the United States and to the peace in the world, to have the Secretary of Defence go out to the Pacific and basically pause the $14 billion sale of weapons to Taiwan, to be able to pause the delivery

of Tomahawk missiles to Japan, and essentially has told New Zealand, Australia, and other nations to, hey, you're on your own.

What this administration has done to NATO, as well as, of course, to the Middle East, he's now starting to do it in Pacific because China is basically doing a better job of sucking up to the president, and that's the best way to say it.

I am saying that they are basically, everything that they're saying, they soften the tone.

In the National Security Strategy, which is, you can Google it and find the unclassified version, it basically says China is the most important threat to the United States, but yet you would not, by our actions, you would not see this to be true.

They refuse to sell weapons and so on to our allies and to back up areas.

I mean, it's rather shocking what is happening about dismantling

the allies that we have around the world in the way this administration has.