targeting the uae. earlier this month it was a deadly attack, ballistic missiles and drones killed at least three foreign workers in the uae, and just last week uae and u.s. forces intercept ed ballistic missiles that were targeting al buthra air base just outside abu dhabi. this was the first time since the gulf war that u.s. forces used fired patriot missile interceptors and they thwarted that attack that was targeting the base. you know, rosemary, the iranian-backed houthi rebels have warned that this is an ongoing campaign. they have warned international companies in the uae, ex-pats in the country, that there is going to be more of what they call this ongoing campaign. they want the uae to end its involvement in the war in yemen. as you ll recall, back in 2019 the uae did withdraw most of its forces from yemen. but more recently a number of
the remaining american diplomats have fled the country making u.s. withdrawal from ukraine complete. ukrainians are nervous and afraid of a full-scale russian invasion. after recognizing two separatist regions, u.s. officials say annexation like what russia did with crimea could be next. that would give russia control of this crisis is over 30 years in 30% of ukraine s land. the making. vladimir putin never accepted that ukraine and russia are two different nations. he thinks they are one people. ukrainians disagree. the majority want to be part of the european union and nato. ever since nato expanded in 1999, putin felt threatened. putin thought moscow could be next. he thinks the launchers used to fire the missile interceptors could be used to large offensive tomahawk cruise missiles. this year marks the 100th anniversary of the founding of
part of the speeches that you been hearing of late are about the mistakes being made. he has feared nato expansion. in 1999 expanded to the countries of hungary. many of the people in the west were celebrating, he felt threatened there are missile interceptors in romania and poland. it so that offensive, it s meant to shoot missile interceptors. the russians don t see it that way. let s not get too tactical here, the same missile launcher that they found. those can also fire tomahawk cruise missiles he thought that they were the one violating the treaty years ago. this is part of the thing, and the west they see a defensive alliance, putin sees a threat. when they joined nato in 1999,
iran. russia doesn t buy that, the missile interceptors are the same launch system, the mark of one launchers on guided missile cruisers, what else are they fire? tomahawk cruise missiles. that s one reason why vladimir putin thinks the west in the united states have violated the imf treaty, the treaty that president reagan s side with russia back in 1987, the soviet union then and of course president trump got out of it. speaking of weapons systems, some analysts say let s go back to the late 70s, the soviet union deployed the ss 20, the ground-based nuclear missile to europe, he matched it with the pershing to into west germany, that s a ground-based intermediate range nuclear missile. europeans freaked out and millions took to the streets including the nato secretary general way back in the day. history it was borne out and got the russians to back down. it got rake and decide not end
tom cotton. raytheon technologies does not teach or train our employee he is on critical race theory. nor do we use race to foment division. despite misrepresentation by politically motivated agitators there is no difference between these resource and those used by many if not most major employers in the u.s. the raytheon ceo may be right what he is doing at raytheon may be doing what thousands of other companies in america is doing. that s a condemnation of corporate america not a defense of raytheon and especially not a defense for a defense contractor like raytheon that depends on tax dollars. raytheon the second largest defense company with over 16 billion in annual revenue making weapons of war including missile interceptors like this one. defense secretary lloyd austin as well as former president trump s defense chief mark esper works there cotton fired another broadside last month accusing the defense secretary allowing critical race theory to be part of the service academie