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This is Intelligence Matters with former acting director of the CIA, Michael Morrell.

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China is very good at setting goals and sticking to those goals, investing, and they're really

pushing ahead in some of these critical technologies that are going to challenge us.

And if all we are going to do is just buy more of the same to try to address it, I think

we're going to be on the losing end of that cost curve.

I think Mr. Putin is a man who has grown up a proud Russian.

He felt like that Russia was not at the table when the post-cold war order was sort of set,

and he felt like Russia was snubbed and should have been at the table, and he's determined

to get Russia back at the table on determining the path of Europe, as well as other parts

of the world, as we see now in Syria and in North Africa.

The trajectory of our relationship with Russia, where do you see that, Henning?

It's not good.

What he wants when he looks to his West is an EU that is fractured and disorganized,

a NATO that is fractured and disorganized.

I think that right now he's succeeding.

That's to say nothing of his interference in our elections, and it seems to me that he's

not necessarily favoring a single candidate.

He just wants to see chaos and getting his way.

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