I'm John Batsch with Mary Kistle, my colleague Executive Vice President Stevenson

Incorporated, former Senior Advisor to the Secretary of State.

The Biden administration now is in re-elect mode,

and I appreciate that.

It's a re-election year.

And yet, we see that the challenges are worldwide

and not being met with what you'd say is easily understood

American policy. For example, South China Sea, deliberate bumping, crashing, reckless behavior by the People's Republic of China People's Liberation

Army Navy Coast Guard vessel.

It's a warship, ramming, buzzing, threatening a Philippine resupply ship in the South China Sea.

For example, the Hezbollah has been peppering the north of Israel for some time and yet the administration's

idea is to send a diplomat to Beirut to talk to whom? I could go on but we're

looking at the administration policy all summed up by a Russian flotilla rides in Havana and

accidentally there's an American attack submarine at Guantanamo accidentally

coincidentally on purpose.

No flagging of the Russian aggression, no trailing them in the Caribbean.

The Russians, their nuclear submarine conducted a live firing exercise in the Caribbean before it landed in

Nevada. No particular attention by the administration other than to assure the American

people it didn't have nuclear

weapons on board.

Mary I understand they're in re-election mode.

You were in re-election mode once in the Trump administration.

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