PDB Situation Report | November 23rd, 2024: Ukraine’s Deadly Weapons Race & the Mass Deportation Debate
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What are the latest developments in Ukraine's weapons race?
Welcome to the PDB Situation Report. I'm Mike Baker. Your eyes and ears on the world stage. All right, let's get briefed. We'll begin today with the latest developments out of Ukraine, where new weapons on both sides are fueling the conflict as if it needed more fuel and prompting concerns about a wider war. Bill Rogio from the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies will join us to give us the skinny or the 411, as the kids say. I'm sure they still say that. Later, with the Trump administration adding immigration hardliners like incoming border czar Tom Holman, sanctuary cities are pushing back against mass deportation efforts. So what's the path forward in solving the crisis? Well, I'm glad you asked that question. We've got Jessica Vaught from the Center for Immigration Studies to weigh in. But first, our Situation Report Spotlight. Now, earlier this week, the Biden administration announced a major reversal in its longstanding policy limiting the use of U.S.-made long-range ballistic missiles known as ATACOMs.
The decision resulted in strikes from Ukrainian forces deep into Russian territory, hitting targets once deemed off-limits by the Biden administration. As expected, the White House's reversal and the subsequent strikes evoked a strong response from the Kremlin, which warned that the use of the weapons marked a new phase in the war. Oh, well, that would be the war that Putin started.
How is the Biden administration changing its military policy?
But Russia went beyond rhetoric, unleashing a new weapon of its own. On Thursday, Kiev reported that the city of Dnipro had been struck by what it initially believed to be an intercontinental ballistic missile, or an ICBM. Ultimately, it was revealed that Russia had used an experimental intermediate-range ballistic missile known as Orshnik. Well, that just rolls off the tongue, doesn't it? In an address to the Russian people following the attack, President Putin warned, quote, we believe that we have the right to use our weapons against military facilities of the countries that allow to use their weapons against our facilities, end quote. For more on this, let me bring in senior fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies and editor of FDD's Long War Journal, Bill Roggio. Bill, great to see you again, and thanks very much for taking the time with us. Pleasure. Thanks for having me back on. Oh, absolutely. Look, you were a crowd favorite, right?
We've been getting emails and texts and postcards asking when you were going to be back on. I don't get that much, so thank you very much. Well, we're just here for affirmation. So, Bill, let's start with a very specific question. When we're talking about the Russia-Ukraine situation, how screwed are we?
Yeah, it's a very concerning situation. Look, I find that the Biden administration... clearing the cranes use of long range strike weapons into Russia in between, you know, as it's going to transfer transition power to a Trump administration that has talked about negotiations to just be. You know, I don't I don't even know how to describe that. vindictive. I don't know what the right word is, Mike, but it's it's unseemly at the least. It seems to be an attempt to sabotage Trump administration policies. If after almost three years of war, the Biden administration wasn't going to prove the the long range strike capacity for U.S. weapons, why would it do so now? And to me, it's only the only reason so is to complicate
What is the significance of long-range strike weapons in the conflict?
Things for an incoming Trump administration.
But what bothers me even more about this is they've they've they've hooked it on. But I'm sorry for interrupting, Bill. But the White House obviously pegged to this decision, both on the on the long range munitions, the attack and the use of anti personnel mines.
they've pegged both of those decisions to the north korean presence right suddenly that was the game changer from their perspective that's what they're saying so did you is there any credibility in that from your perspective it's an awful excuse the north koreans are providing what 10 000 troops to the combat look i'm no fan of putin or his invasion of of the ukraine it's illegal it's immoral all of those things
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What are the latest developments in Ukraine's weapons race?
0:12–1:41
2
How is the Biden administration changing its military policy?
1:41–3:48
3
What is the significance of long-range strike weapons in the conflict?
3:48–58:26
4
What challenges do sanctuary cities face with the new administration?
58:26–59:36
5
How are immigration policies evolving under Trump?
59:36
6
What is the outlook for a ceasefire in Ukraine by 2025?
54:37
7
How do domestic pressures affect Zelensky's negotiations?
33:16
8
What are the implications of North Korean involvement in the conflict?
10:53–59:59
Speakers
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