Retired Rear Admiral Mark Montgomery

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The President's Daily Brief · PDB Situation Report | December 13th, 2025: Inside Japan’s Biggest Military Shift Since World War Two & Iran’s Student Uprising · 13 Dec 2025 podcast

They don't leave.

Whereas with the United States, we may spend 900 billion, but we keep 90% of our weapons outside of the Western Pacific at any one time.

We only keep about 10% of our military forward deployed in the Western Pacific for the Asia Pacific crises, either forward stationed or forward deployed.

So, that $50 billion go to $60 billion, go to $70 billion, go to $80 billion, it's going to leave a mark on Chinese ability to conduct military operations.

So, that's another reason they have beat with Japan's actions over the last year and a half.

And the personal comments about wringing her by her neck and things like that, just unprofessional.

It's how China is.

China is a bully.

And when they see a country that's smaller than them, and they see everyone is smaller than them except the United States, they bully them.

That is their MO.

It's been their MO for over a decade now.

And so, I expect it to continue.

And they should be nervous, by the way.

I should have said.

What Japan is buying with this is F-35 fifth-generation aircraft, the refueling aircraft that'll help US and Japanese aircraft conduct operations, long-range strike missiles, Tomahawks, several hundred of them.

getting delivered soon, their own indigenous locally produced strike weapons, things that can hit China.

So, this is all a strong deterred signal from Japan, don't mess with us, don't mess with the United States and don't mess with Taiwan.

And I think that's a good strong signal for them to be sending because it amplifies our signal because of their geographic proximity.

They're building more and more military infrastructure farther and farther south along the Ryukus, that southern island chain that extends towards China.

Clearly, it really extends towards Taiwan, but then China.

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