You know, how did we get into the situation where we can't produce enough munitions to resupply even one country fighting the Russians?

We never thought there was going to be state-on-state land war in Europe again.

We thought that war in, you you know the future was going to be

information intensive hybrid attack kinds of things with intelligence

operations and unmanned and insurgency tactics and all these other kinds of things.

We didn't think we're going to see tanks and fighter jets and mortars, but that's exactly what

we see now. The new access between Russia, China, and Iran, a year into the Russia-Ukraine war in which

President Biden says, we will stay in this and back the Ukrainians for quote as long as it takes how long is that

Try to get answers to some of these questions. We called up one of our go-tos Richard Fontaine

Richard is the CEO of the Center for New American

Security, a bipartisan foreign policy think tank in Washington DC. Imagine that.

An institution that's bipartisan these days in DC.

Prior to joining the Center for New American Security,

Richard was foreign policy advisor to Senator John McCain.

We worked for him on the Senate Armed Services Committee, traveled all over the world with him,

including year after year to the Munich Security Conference, where Richard just returned from,

which we'll talk a little bit about.

He also worked at the State Department, the National Security Council, and on the

staff of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

He currently serves on President Biden's Defense Policy Board, which advises the Pentagon.

So he is close to a lot of the decision-making,

and analysis and forecasting of the Biden Administration

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