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And I'm going to talk about Lukashenko's Belarusian army getting involved or at least the possibility

of a Belarus front in an offensive against Keefe. All of these are on the map. And I

welcome John Bolton riding at 1945 most recently about the response so far, what we know is

the plan in Washington. John, the heart of the matter is, these all look to be the same

threat to the United States. Does the State Department see it that way? Good evening

John. Good evening. Well, I think the administration's problem overall is that it does not have a

really comprehensive vision for how to handle this multiplicity of threats simultaneously.

They've certainly written a national security strategy, but I personally think it's very

weak on China. That's the principle threat. And it's been a day late and a dollar short

for most of the assistance we've given to Ukraine. We've given a lot. There's no doubt about

it, not out of the goodness of our hearts, but because it's in our interest to do it. But

what's the strategy for Ukraine to win the war? What's the strategy to defend Japan and

South Korea with this increasingly ominous signalling by the combined forces of Russia and China,

which as I've said before, have produced already a kind of on-tot between themselves, maybe

a division of labor, but also prepared to operate together when they are in the same territory

as they are in East Asia. So the administration really, it's kind of a whack-a-mole approach.

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