precipitous drop in those attacks engineering 2021 the tax that occurred this week by iranian backed militias and the numbers have skyrocketed since january 2021 and the coincidence there that s when joe biden entered the white house, that is one example showing projecting strength versus weakness and i think it s why we see our adversaries moving around the world and things happening that were happening two years ago, russia shooting down in q9 reaper drones china telling us not to have our ships in international waters and telling us they will be serious consequences if we don t withdraw, they keep doing that because there aren t consequences when those countries threaten us. former director of national intelligence, former congressman from the great state of texas, john lee ratcliffe, thank you for joining us on the sunday night. thank you très. at next imagine you need a drug
ceremony that i received outside of washington among the awardees richard a veteran who wrestled to the ground the gunmen and club q in colorado springs saved countless supplies, jean who helped her students crime out the window of her classroom to safety and died putting herself between them and the school shooter, anthony alexander junior who rescued three children it was an amazing evening see in the middle of honor recipients provide the awards and honor the citizen heroes. that s who deserves the attention in our culture thank you for highlighting that and joining us on the sunday night. thank you. trey: joining is now the former director of national intelligence, former congressman and the united states attorney from the great state of texas john lee ratcliffe. how concerned should we be at the relationship between china and russia, jen said that they met under 50 times.
there is no deterrence i think what s happening in ukraine will provided deterrence with what happens to taiwan but they re not prepared there is no deterrence for war i think the concern i signed off on foreign military sales of taiwan three years ago that i get to go into the country. director he is drawing a leak i watch the entire interview from the withdrawal from afghanistan and ambivalence about ukraine and ambivalence about taiwan and our decrease presence on the world stage he traces it back to afghanistan, do you believe that and where would you trace it back to? i do agree with that you and i talked about this in the summer of august 2021 on this very program where we set as a result of what happened in afghanistan china and russia and iran would likely test the biden administration because they saw
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