8: US-Ukraine Summit Yields No Tomahawk Commitment; Focus on Attrition. John Hardie and Bill Roggio discuss how reports suggest President Trump pressed Zelensky to agree to a ceasefire based on Russian territorial demands, though no commitment was made on pr
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 21 October 2025
⏱️ 15 minutes
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| 0:30.1 | This is CBS Eye on the World. Here's John Batchelor. |
| 0:37.6 | I'm joined by Bill Rajel, my colleague and co-host of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, |
| 0:39.5 | a senior fellow keeps a Long War journal. |
| 0:45.8 | And John Hardy are a Ukraine-Russia watcher for the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and much more watching the White House, watching NATO, |
| 0:50.1 | watching remarks by the President of the United States these last days. |
| 0:54.3 | John, a very good evening to you. I begin with the story of the Tomahawks. A couple of weeks ago |
| 0:59.7 | at the Valdei conference in Sochi, Russia. Vladimir Putin took questions about the Tomahawks |
| 1:04.8 | from the press and made it very clear that that was the Russian version of a red line. Do not do this or will escalate. |
| 1:12.6 | That was a couple of weeks ago. Last week, there was reason to believe that Mr. Trump was |
| 1:17.8 | disposed to releasing some Tomahawks to our European allies in NATO who could then make the |
| 1:26.1 | decision to direct them to Keefe because Tomahawks are a long-range |
| 1:31.2 | strike capability with a large warhead that Keefe does not have an owl have in its arsenal, |
| 1:37.3 | could range across the map of Russia, destroying energy nodes or anything to do with the economy. |
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