start with the positive, which is as tom suggested. we do have an amazing air traffic control system that does manage to move thousands of planes around the country every day without virtually any accidents or anything untoward happening. in that regard we should be happy and proud of what we have, but it is incredibly antiquated, it has not changed in 30 years and apart from these outages, costly for americans, planes fly much longer routes than they need to. they re separated as they come in to land by far greater distances than they need to be, because the sophisticated gps and other ways of locating planes and keeping track where everybody is has not really been fully integrated into the system. so we re still using very old-fashioned kind of ground radar and things like that to track these planes, and the
for the united states, i have to say our precision strike, we re probably 90% effective, 95%, but the russians lack the ground radar to really be able to know what they re hitting as those low cruise missiles fly in, so they hit things that maybe they don t intend. so you believe this deal can survive, at least for now? i, you know, look, i think it is kind of the reagan that you have to verify and don t trust. and you have to keep going. the intelligence analyst in me says that i m kind of pessimistic, but the former policymaker part of me says, look, you ve got to keep trying, you ve got to push these things because ukraine s economy is going down 45% this year and that grain has got to get out. for the 47 million people who are at risk of acute hunger, according to the world food program, and for the ukrainian government, because they re
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