Welcome to the Three Martini Lunch.

Grab a stool next to Greg Corumbus of Radio America and Jim Garrity of National Review.

Three Martinis coming up.

So glad you're with us for the Thursday edition of the Three Martini Lunch.

Yesterday was our first good Martini.

It's a qualified good Martini for the week, but today, two good Martinis, and honestly,

they're good Martinis.

Plus a really, really bad one.

So stay tuned for that.

Couple of great sponsors as usual, and Jim let's talk about something positive on the

international stage that it looks like the Biden administration was part of here, because

there certainly hasn't been much on that front, whether it's Afghanistan or a lot of other

things that we could say, hey, you know, that actually makes sense.

But it looks like there is enough concern in this administration to partner up with

the Brits and the Aussies to try and deter Chinese aggression in the Indo-Pacific.

So Reuters is reporting China denouncing the new Indo-Pacific security alliance among

the United States, Britain, and Australia, saying such partnerships should not target

third countries in the warning of an intensified arms race in the region.

Under the arrangement, our three countries will provide Australia with the technology and

capability to deploy nuclear-powered submarines, France, which loses its own submarine deal

with Australia in the process, calls the plan brutal and unpredictable, and they even

compared Biden's unpredictability here to Trump, whatever that's worth.

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