competition. it s a competition that the united states is poised and able to win, and he means to do that. he means for us to be successful in that competition. not shy one bit laying bare his concerns about prc activities, whether it s in the security realm or the economic realm. sandra: interview on the ground with john kirby, not shy one bit. you agree with that? john kirby said china is a competitor france is a competitor. china is an adversary. they want to push us out of the western pacific and trying to take global dominance and we should understand that and if we don t, we will make a huge mistake and pay for it later on. john: call up martha mcsally, asked if she wants to get back to the cockpit. she might. sandra: a major court decision in a messy dispute
that means is the danger is perhaps we are going to be increasing and moving from the economic realm to the military and security realm. good to talk to you thank you for coming on the programme. well, let s return to moscow and bring you pictures from another event there today. thousands packed into a stadium in the russian capital to hear from president putin as part of a patriotic gala concert to mark one year of russia s invasion. surrounded on stage by members of the armed forces, he spoke of russian warriors heroically fighting this very moment on the borders of historically russian lands. he also falsely claimed the entire country was supporting those fighting in ukraine, which he said made everyone a defender of the fatherland. as with tuesday s state of the nation address, today s speech was laden with religious and mystical imagery, and conspiracy theories. let s hear some of it. translation: right now - there is a battle on our historical
counterinsurgency guidance, co-authored by general david petraeus. a strategy that focused less on conventional warfare and more on securing the support of the population, ensuring aid and infrastructure, trying to win the trust of the people. you quite literally wrote the book on counterinsurgency, coined what our viewers might understand better as the idea of nation building. did that work in afghanistan? i think it actually did work during the period that we had the resources to do that. the problem is that in a situation like afghanistan, you do have to be prevailing, if you will, in the security realm because that is the foundation that allows you to do all of these other tasks. people say that
in 2006, troops trying to counter insurgency on their own. the u.s. updated counter insurgency guidance. a strategy that focused on less conventional warfare and more on securing the support of the population, ensuring aids and infrastructure and trying to win the trust of the people. you literally working on the books, the idea of naasian building. did it work in afghanistan? it did work, during the period we did have the resources to do that. the problem is in a situation like afghanistan, we do have to be prevailing if you will in the security realm because that s the foundation that allows you to do all of these other tasks.
with the campaign finance crimes cohen was charged with, so they re right back facing those. they have no defense to that. on top of that, you ve got the possibility of new investigations going on with regard to the extortion. and then perhaps the most intriguing aspect is why is mr. pecker so upset about the saudi connection. as they dig into that, it s possible if you find a money trail back to the saudis, we know that ami has been interested in getting saudi funding and there could be issues there in terms of foreign money influencing the election. shan, this claim made by bezos security chief, who s very well known in the security realm that he believes it s possible that a government entity may have gotten ahold of bezos text messages, the most obvious question is which government entity or could it also mean a foreign government? exactly. and if it s a foreign government, it goes right back to this idea of foreign influence in the elections. and that can also, if they had r