implications here. general kellogg, we ll see what happens next. china s military has declared it s ready to fight as we continue to follow what s happening in taiwan after completing three days now of these large scale combat exercises. taiwan s foreign minister says they have enough to defend themselves, listen to this. does taiwan have today what it needs to defend itself? yes, we do. we have been procuring military arsenals from the united states for a long time. we have also been increasing our military training so that we are ready at any moment. sandra: general kellogg, former secretary of state mike pompeo was on the program yesterday and said we should be all in to help, and lindsey graham said u.s. troops should be ready to get involved. how far do you believe we should go to help taiwan defend against
and i was one of the assault commanders physically on the ground in panama. what we did under these exercises, we deliberately tried to do some provocations with at that time the panamanian military to find out what their reaction was going on the, how timely was it going to be the, what kind of force were they going to respond with, and and we actually kept pushing the envelope. this is what the chinese are doing, very similar. just find out how the u.s. is going to react, what their decision making process is. is it going to be fast, is it going to be slow. is it going to be hard? is it going to be soft. i think they re continuing to gather information on the leadership and the decision making process of the united states. and so they rerring great information not just military and what they ve gathered, but on our decision making process. very concerning. arthel: very concerning. and in the meantime, and those are really excellent points, of course, that you make, general kellogg, m