HEADLINE: US Intelligence, Tomahawks, and Escalation in the Ukraine War GUEST NAMES: John Hardie, Bill Roggio SUMMARY: The US is considering providing Ukraine with long-range Tomahawk missiles, potentially facilitating strikes on Russian energy nodes us
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 14 October 2025
⏱️ 12 minutes
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GUEST NAMES: John Hardie, Bill Roggio
SUMMARY: The US is considering providing Ukraine with long-range Tomahawk missiles, potentially facilitating strikes on Russian energy nodes using US intelligence. While Russia warns of escalation, experts believe their response will likely be strengthening air defense rather than direct conflict with NATO. Ukrainian officials are urgently seeking air defense systems due to increasing Russian missile and drone production.
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| 0:30.1 | This is CBS Eye on the World. Here's John Batchelor. |
| 0:37.8 | Ukraine defending itself from the aggression of the Russian Federation and its allies. |
| 0:44.4 | Bill Rajos, Senior Fellow Foundation for Defensive Democracy, joins me as my colleague and co-host, |
| 0:51.3 | and we're very pleased to welcome our man on Ukraine and Russia's conflict, John Hardy, |
| 0:53.4 | of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. |
| 0:55.7 | John, a very good evening to you. |
| 1:03.6 | The news that I have seen that is puzzling and requires more explanation is the remark by the president and his aides that good intelligence or superior intelligence or excellent |
| 1:10.0 | American intelligence has been passed to or will be past two. |
| 1:14.5 | It's very unclear to me to Ukraine about energy nodes in Russia. |
| 1:20.5 | This is a matter of economics, sanctions, but at the same time, it's war fighting. |
| 1:25.8 | Along with those remarks about good location information |
| 1:30.7 | and up-to-date intelligence about the energy nodes, |
| 1:34.1 | such as a switching station or electric generating plan, |
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