And czech soldiers are carrying out a military exercise in lithuania the potential enemy russia their mission deterrence and a show of strength a nato eastern flank. Ablaze if it will deter the enemy with all the means at our disposal the world is growing less secure and more confusing a renewed arms race with nuclear and conventional weapons is imminent existing alliances are crumbling the need to be for many to be strong to deter any potential aggressor from attacking most to preserve the peace of germany and its neighbors could again be caught in the middle between the superpowers. Russia is laying claim to territory and for the 1st time since world war 2 a country is taking that territory by force but it doesnt this is a potential threat of the highest order and anyone who opposes a rearmament debate is not just not. Heave thats incredibly dangerous on the field. Can the German Military the bundesbank meet the new challenges. I do believe that the German Military is in a very dire
Alliance with regional and Global Security challenges, this is from hosted by the International Strategic studies. [inaudible conversations] good afternoon, everyone. Thank you very much for coming. Its friday afternoon in august and you know, im delighted that your Summer Vacation plans include csis, but its really a testament to how important, influential and respected our panel today is. Im the senior vicepresident for asia and japan here csis at georgetown. Before we get started we always do a brief safety announcement. And we have about ten fourstar admirals and generals in the room, but this former boy scout will be in charge. If there is a need to evacuate and ill let you know, but well head out and head around the corner to National Geographic down 17th street. Out the back. We have simultaneous interpretation and there should be headsets on your chair. If you have a problem, wave and someone will help you. Please leave them on the chair, if you take them home wed send the new
And dressed in fairness radin, we should have actually been dressed, but as it turned out , well, this is also a powerful tool, a powerful tool, of course, influencing people, well , really, because the oscar, which the whole world is watching and so on, and we watched before recently, they have a whole series of such special nominations , which are designed, as i understand it, designed, so to speak, to attract some attention or, so to speak, not to allow it to fade away in some direction in some country, lets say with everything. Respect for Nikita Sergeevich mikhalkov , and i sincerely respect him, i consider him a great artist, by the way, a russian and a great director, but i think that in many ways the oscar of 1995 was due to the fact that, well, russia, russia it was , so to speak, this was the topic then, it was a good topic, an important topic, so it is not accidental, it is not accidental that Nikita Sergeevichs oscar is not only because the film is great, but because there
Kurt graham. Im the director of the Truman Library. Welcome to the Truman Library. Always a great pleasure to welcome and an eager audience. And we feel like just kind of in some ways getting back into swing of things here and having some great opportunities in the post pandemic to get together again. We as we used to and as we look forward to doing again. So thank you for being here. Were just delighted tonight to have this very special. Its such a unique opportunity, us and and for all of you everyone involved, to welcome Garry Kasparov to the Truman Library is a world chess champion, an author and a master of strategy and a great humanitarian who is concerned about the state of the world. And youre going to hear a little bit about that tonight. Someone whos spending his fame, his energy, his resources to try and make the world a better place for everyone in it. And i think there are only a handful of people who ever get to do Something Like that. And im very proud and happy to have
Post pandemic to get together again. We as we used to and as we look forward to doing again. So thank you for being here. Were just delighted tonight to have this very special. Its such a unique opportunity, us and and for all of you everyone involved, to welcome Garry Kasparov to the Truman Library is a world chess champion, an author and a master of strategy and a great humanitarian who is concerned about the state of the world. And youre going to hear a little bit about that tonight. Someone whos spending his fame, his energy, his resources to try and make the world a better place for everyone in it. And i think there are only a handful of people who ever get to do Something Like that. And im very proud and happy to have him here. And its wonderful to be associated with him even these brief contexts. Gary is the author of three books, how life imitates chess winter coming why Vladimir Putin and the enemies the free world must be stopped and deep thinking where Machine Intelligence e