Of course at least from the u. K. Side things arent looking so sure of that anymore either but there is this fear here in germany as well that words are many to become part of at least that u. S. Led mission and that it could become Collateral Damage in the same could apply to an e. U. Naval mission as well so thats something that germanys discussing at the moment but nothing has been moved off the table so far germany is in very close talks with the u. K. And with france right now as we saw there on a great crime karrenbauer the new Defense Minister was already meeting with french and u. K. Officials today to discuss exactly how a joint effort can be achieved and to move things forward and find out whats very important for germany here a Difficult Matic Solution so not any kind of Military Action but beyond that still murky waters all around helen of what about. That International Naval mission that
the u. S. Has been trying to put together in the Strait Of Hormuz is there any movemen
the u.s. has been trying to put together in the strait of hormuz is there any movement on that. well there is some movement which yet know the full details and that what we should point out is that talks were held today with military representatives from the united states from the u.k. in back rain back rain of course is home to the 5th largest u.s. naval fleet in the wild so a sense that they are putting that together details are emerging on that those doors those talks to being held behind closed doors we can expect more details potentially on thursday and now we know that perhaps denmark code and portugal spain and sweden said that they would be interested to hear what comes out of that suggest away in their possibilities i wonder now whether that changes based on those latest sanctions targeted against the foreign minister zarif because that makes it very clear that the united states is still pursuing this campaign of
julie: short and sweet, there you have mike pompeo talking about the threat from iran. we were talking about those two oil tankers that were under attack by mine. a u.s. naval fleet rescuing the sailors that had to evacuate while prime minister abe was trying to meet with iran to try to bridge the gap between japan and iran. i want to bring in the president of the center for security policy. all fingers were pretty much pointing at iran, and mike pompeo just confirmed that. what are your thoughts? i thought it was a great statement. the president s critics keep saying this threat from iran is not real, the intelligence has been cooked. julie, clearly it isn t cooked. we now have attacks that clearly iran was behind. i think secretary pompeo was very clear in laying out the evidence and also making it clear that increased u.s. forces in the region are a defensive move. president trump does not want a
also the new nafta agreement, what i think is the only significant geopolitical event of last week but maybe of the trump administration. you had a mike pence speech saying that china was a bigger threat to us than russia. you had an announcement that the u.s. naval fleet was going to do a set exercises in september over a week sending a message. you had a new dod, pentagon report on threats to our military industrial base, including raw materials and especially metals from china and so on and so forth and it all came together last week. i talked to a senior professional who said over the last two years officials have worked for thousands of hours, studies, assessments and just decided that, you know, we brought china in. we thought as they modernized economically they would become more liberal in terms of human rights, democracy, common cause with the united states. we ve given up on that now and
bayonets i just don t understand that comparison. the president all these defense cuts if all these defense cuts go through, our navy will be smaller than it was in world war i. that s simply not true. the size of the u.s. naval fleet reached its lowest point in 2007 under george bush. naval ships today as you know do more than they could do in the days of world war 19. can you just spell that out, goldie. the interesting part about this is that paul ryan doesn t understand because, frankly, he s never served. he s never put his name on an enlistment contract. he s never gone through boot camp. doesn t know what the navy does or how it does it. comparing, you know, our naval fleet today is like comparing the smartphone i have in my hand to rotary phones that my grandmother had. frankly, these ships, these vessels can do more. they can be more.