Our country. They remember and honor history in the middle kingdom. In the face of aggression from hitlers germany and its satellites, japanese militarists, the armies and peoples of the soviet union and china fought shoulder to shoulder. It has already become traditional for beijing. The immortal regiment rally took place today on the territory of the russian embassy. The atmosphere of memory and celebration at alexander baletsky. Under the banner. The great victory in one line included people from the former ussr and even the chinese, but mostly, of course, russians living in beijing. Please look, they are also with us now. Ring, let us, here you go, all these people are with us today. In our hands are portraits of heroes who are remembered and honored, even thousands of kilometers away from their homeland. Two ivans, the younger ivan, still in finnish, went to thirtyninth, and was called up, but disappeared without a trace. A my grandfather is my father, my real father, i am proud,
S its a seinfeld shutdown. Im michael smerconish. When we have been here before, it was for understandable reasons. In the 90s it was about spend ing cuts. 2013 the issue was bipartisan disagreement over the Affordable Care act on president obamas watch. In 2018 the issue was president trumps desire to build a wall on the mexican border. But this time, the American Enterprise institute has started to recefer to the impasse as th seinfeld shutdown. It dates fwook georges pitch to tv executives. I think i can sum up the show for you with one word. Nothing. Nothing . Nothing. What does that mean . The show is about nothing. Indeed like the series, it is a shutdown about nothing to which i would add nothing except polarization. Well get to the impact that it all has on the military in just a moment. Also on todays program, police say an online influencer live streamed the widespread looting in philadelphia this week and encouraged the targeting of specific stores. Ill discuss the thorny is
You have a hard act to follow. Believe me, this is the guy to follow it. Because what we have done is now we are following it up with maybe our favorite programming partners, the u. S. Army command and general Staff College in fort leavenworth. For the better part of the past century, it seems, we have been trying to figure out our relationship with china. Are we allies, adversaries . Sometimes it seems we are both at the same time. Worlds two biggest economies. Right now, we see china as a linchpin in what might happen with north korea. We are fortunate to have with us one of the foremost authorities on u. S. China relations. He will examine a key 50 years in the relationship of the two countries, in this case from 1900 and 1950 that really set the stage for a lot of what was to come, including south korea, the korean war and the vietnam war. Its a period hes looking at the started with american involvement in conjunction with the boxer rebellion of 1900. This of course was before xi
And general Staff College in fort leavenworth. For the better part of the past century, it seems, we have been trying to figure out our relationship with china. Right now we see china as a linchpin in what might happen with north korea. Two countries with the most biggest economies, a fifth of our exports come from them, a fifth of their exports come from we do not know really we are allies are adversaries. We are fortunate to have with us one of the foremost authorities on u. S. China relations, jeff have. Babb. F he will examine a key 50 years been in the relationship of the two countries, in this case from 1900 and 1950 that really set the stage for a lot of what was to come, including south korea, the korean war and the vietnam war. Its a period hes looking at that started with american involvement in conjunction with the boxer rebellion of 1900. This, of course was before xi , jinping is even a twinkle in Donald Trumps eye, or maybe its vice versa, im not sure. As i said before th
Restructure the war by aligning u. S. Efforts under a president ial envoy, all decisions become laser focused on creating a stable, tofsupporting afghanistan give our troops and exit ramp. Outline specifically what you want to do. The president can pull everything out completely, which i think would be a bad idea. I think the taliban and isis would in up taking over the country and would be a rallying cry for every terrorist around the world, or we can keep doing much of the same that we have aen, weve spent almost trillion dollars, now spending more than the entire Defense Budget of the u. K. , justin afghanistan. More than 2000 americans dead, 20,000 plus wounded. Health care calls from that war will be a trillion dollars on top of it. And as secretary mattis said, we are not winning. The terrorist forces control almost half the country as it is now. Clearly the current strategy is not working. A try to take a step back and reason the reason is to say lets haraway the incremental dec