WEBVTT NOTE recognizability 0.862 NOTE language en-us 00:00:00.060 --> 00:00:03.250 Holding them joining me right now is retired. U.S. Army Lieutenant 00:00:03.250 --> 00:00:06.440 Colonel Daniel Davis Colonel. It's great to have you this morning. 00:00:06.440 --> 00:00:10.790 Thanks very much. You know we are past the 100 day mark here and the 00:00:10.790 --> 00:00:14.850 war on Ukraine, and it feels like Americans are are are putting it on 00:00:14.850 --> 00:00:18.620 the back burner at this point, not as much interest. How would you 00:00:18.620 --> 00:00:21.230 characterize where we are on this war in Ukraine? 00:00:22.510 --> 00:00:25.954 Yeah, I think you're you're 100% right. There's just so many things 00:00:25.954 --> 00:00:29.111 happening in the United States you know with with school shootings 00:00:29.111 --> 00:00:32.842 with this January 6th thing going on now. All kinds of things that 00:00:32.842 --> 00:00:36.573 you know are gonna take precedence after this war has been going on. 00:00:36.573 --> 00:00:40.017 But in the Donbas, especially, I assure you that nothing's going on 00:00:40.017 --> 00:00:43.748 the back burner. It is getting much hotter, and and in fact, despite 00:00:43.748 --> 00:00:47.479 all the weapons we've been sending in the most heroic efforts of the 00:00:47.479 --> 00:00:50.062 Ukrainian forces, Russia continues to just methodically move further 00:00:50.062 --> 00:00:52.932 to the to the West. And they now have almost. 00:00:53.070 --> 00:00:56.050 Completely taking the city of several Donetsk and then now 00:00:56.050 --> 00:00:59.924 then at least the challenge which is right next to that is is 00:00:59.924 --> 00:01:03.500 the next in their target list. And if if something big doesn't 00:01:03.500 --> 00:01:06.778 happen soon, Ukraine can lose up to 10 to 12,000 troops 00:01:06.778 --> 00:01:08.566 getting cut off in that cauldron. 00:01:09.950 --> 00:01:13.261 Wow, that is really a shame. They've been so courageous and 00:01:13.261 --> 00:01:16.873 incredible in terms of fighting back, is there anything that the West 00:01:16.873 --> 00:01:19.582 can do at this point to further assist Ukraine? 00:01:20.730 --> 00:01:24.594 You know, obviously just looking at it from a cold military calculus. 00:01:24.594 --> 00:01:29.102 There's just not, and one of the key reasons why is that Ukraine has 00:01:29.102 --> 00:01:33.288 a 40 to 1 disadvantage in artillery ammunition. So even if we sent, 00:01:33.288 --> 00:01:36.508 you know another 100 artillery Rep weapons from our inventory, 00:01:36.508 --> 00:01:40.050 there's not enough ammunition to keep pace with the Russians, who 00:01:40.050 --> 00:01:43.592 have no problem continuing to manufacture more rounds and you just 00:01:43.592 --> 00:01:47.778 can't stand up to a 40 to 1 disadvantage in artillery shells and 00:01:47.778 --> 00:01:51.964 continue to hold ground. I, I just don't see anything in the near. 00:01:52.070 --> 00:01:55.190 Term that's gonna hold the Russians back unfortunately. Well, we're 00:01:55.190 --> 00:01:58.934 looking at these pictures and it is just simply death and destruction 00:01:58.934 --> 00:02:03.302 in Ukraine. A really our hearts go out to the Ukrainians I wanna get 00:02:03.302 --> 00:02:07.046 your take on China's position in all of this US Defense Secretary 00:02:07.046 --> 00:02:10.478 Lloyd Austin is going to be meeting reportedly meeting with his 00:02:10.478 --> 00:02:13.910 Chinese counterpart for the first time tonight in Singapore. the US 00:02:13.910 --> 00:02:17.966 is looking to set up some guardrails on the US China relationship as 00:02:17.966 --> 00:02:21.398 tensions grow. The meeting happening on the sidelines of a key 00:02:21.398 --> 00:02:24.606 security conference. Lieutenant Colonel Davis. What are your thoughts 00:02:24.606 --> 00:02:28.782 on this adversary that is the Chinese Communist Party and and the 00:02:28.782 --> 00:02:33.306 policy that is required to push back on the CCP's goals and motives 00:02:33.306 --> 00:02:36.786 to overtake the United States? Is the number one superpower. 00:02:38.000 --> 00:02:42.528 Yeah, you know, I think that the best thing that we can do is is is 00:02:42.528 --> 00:02:46.773 keep a focus on what is in the best interest of the United States and 00:02:46.773 --> 00:02:50.169 and sometimes just pushing back and reflectively on all the fronts is 00:02:50.169 --> 00:02:53.565 not the best thing to accomplish. Our objectives. I think what we 00:02:53.565 --> 00:02:57.527 should do is find areas to where it benefits us to work with China. 00:02:57.527 --> 00:03:00.923 To do that, and without hesitation push back in other areas which 00:03:00.923 --> 00:03:04.885 it's not. But I fear that sometimes we get too caught up in the 00:03:04.885 --> 00:03:07.715 China. Is the enemy adversarial situation and we push back 00:03:07.715 --> 00:03:10.564 everywhere. We have to be smarter about how we engage with China. 00:03:14.510 --> 00:03:18.670 And then there's Iran, the head of the UN's atomic agency says that 00:03:18.670 --> 00:03:22.830 Iran has dealt a potentially quote fatal blow to the return to the 00:03:22.830 --> 00:03:26.350 2015 nuclear accord after Tehran decided to remove 27 of the 00:03:26.350 --> 00:03:28.910 International Atomic Energy agencies monitoring cameras from nuclear 00:03:28.910 --> 00:03:33.070 sites across the country. The head of the agency is calling on Iran 00:03:33.070 --> 00:03:36.270 to reverse this decision. Lieutenant Colonel. But you know, bump. 00:03:36.270 --> 00:03:40.430 Some people are questioning why the US is negotiating to get back in 00:03:40.430 --> 00:03:42.350 this deal in the first place. 00:03:43.830 --> 00:03:48.282 Well, you know the the the the unpleasant truth is that after that we 00:03:48.282 --> 00:03:52.734 got out of the JCPOA. You you Iran, went on a significant increase in 00:03:52.734 --> 00:03:56.550 its nuclear development and it is in the amount of nuclear material 00:03:56.550 --> 00:04:00.684 that is produced because it claims we broke the agreement and so that 00:04:00.684 --> 00:04:05.454 they were no longer bound by it. And now the the the big problem here 00:04:05.454 --> 00:04:09.588 is that Russia and Ukraine. I'm sorry Russia and and Iran are now 00:04:09.588 --> 00:04:13.404 moving, you know more towards allies, you know because they have the 00:04:13.404 --> 00:04:17.473 common. I mean, you know us in their view and and Russia and and 00:04:17.473 --> 00:04:20.845 Ukraine. Iran sorry are benefiting from each other and making it less 00:04:20.845 --> 00:04:24.498 likely that Iran is going to do anything that we want. And that's 00:04:24.498 --> 00:04:28.713 just a a harsh reality of the of the dynamics that play right now and 00:04:28.713 --> 00:04:31.804 we have to deal with that too. It's it's a problem. 00:04:33.140 --> 00:04:36.654 Yeah Colonel, thanks very much for weighing in on all of that. We so 00:04:36.654 --> 00:04:38.913 appreciate you, Lieutenant Colonel Daniel good, my pleasure, Sir.