host and founded. this is a message to her adversaries and then finally, steve, and i thank you so the most dangerous allowing our military to atrophy in a way, focusing it on climate equity, so that we have the worst recruiting crisis, since vietnam and at the end of the day, even after the most powerful military in the world but her adversaries believe that is weakening and is led by a week commander-in-chief, that is why you are seeing out of her adversaries on the marsh right now, no coincidence they re all doing it at the same time. steve: in a way they re all running after beijing, literally you have people from brazil the same we can, and making these arrangements about the currency, is always happening so quickly equity ask you about the leak. all the classified material this become about the biggest self,
makes a tough statement, that s fine. but what is he doing about the continuing atrophy of u.s. forces in the pacific? every year the chinese military gets stronger. they spend oodles on their military. we re tied down with serious obligations in europe now, in the middle east. we still have a military largely geared towards fighting counterinsurgency and middle-eastern backwaters and the number of cruisers and destroyers, satellites and nuclear systems that are pertinent to the pacific decline every year. yes, it s fine, i think the bidenen administration made the right call here, but it would be much better if at the state of the union or some other point in time the president explain plaig to decouple from the chinese? are we going to shift resources? president biden said this after our humiliation in afghanistan, that we were going to at least if be able to focus on the pacific where most americans think our chief adversary is, china, are we going to do any of that or just be in re
that is, sort of almost an insurrection within it s similar to the insurrection that happened without on january 6th. also, the more you after atrophy the federal government, the more power is in private actors, including maga megan corporations. we ll set that aside for a moment. i ve just gotta ask, you mention marjorie taylor greene, who is now sitting on one of the committees that is tasked with examining the covid crisis. this is someone who is literally suspended from social media for promoting covid lies. i mean the foxes not only in the house. the fox has built this henhouse and is sitting on top of it. then, you have dan bishop, who s now sitting on the weaponization of the federal government committee. these committees are i, mean they are gonna be circuses, of course, but congress needs congress has business to do. my question is, what is the attitude of democrats who are in the minority, or as he did on some of these committees what is the posture going to be
is it globalization, is it economic disenfranchisement, is it the fracturing of our information systems, the atrophy of our institutions? how do you look at this movement holistically, and explain why these forces seem to be so potent right now around the world, and in countries that are very different from one another? that s a great question. it s all of the things that you mentioned. i would also add the democracy has perhaps taken their appeal for granted. it is in these strongman spikes, where they often come from the media experience, asking communications experience. they are extremely skilled and using emotions. like trump and bolsonaro would tell their supporters that they loved them, trumpeted that in january 6th, i love you. they would seem to be addressing the problems of a
focused on north korea saying additional north korean provocations and, of course, north korea s backed up by chinr ballistic missile or nuclear test is going to bring an enhanced u.s. presence to the western pacific, but that rings hollow e to the chinese because the obama-biden administration talked about a pivot to asia and a rebalancing to asia after the failure in afghanistan, biden said, well, this ll give us a chance to focus on china and asia. if you look at the u.s. military posture or our economic posture in that region, it actually is less than it has been in previous years, it continues to atrophy. biden s going to press the chinese on russia, but they look at that as, wait, you want us to beat up on the russians so basically you can turn your attention from rush sho to china. another not likely to produce a lot it s not likely to produce a lot of concrete outcomes. neil: we re more interested in