Take $7 billion a month to rebuild his country and this would ve been over had he gotten the weapons that he needed sooner. joining me the former director of national intelligence john ratcliffe to weigh in. good to see you, thank you very much for being here, can you assess the u.s. response too the war on ukraine? it encapsulates the sad state of american foreign policy under the biden administration sending secretary lincoln in austin to project american strength in the situation. these are the two guys that were the architects of the most embarrassing military retreat and surrender frankly in afghanistan in american history, there are really never the good options, or get us in joe biden, but here s to projecting the constraints pre-there s a problem with the capacity of the biden administration to project strengths around the world in these situations.
Says it will take $7 billion a month to rebuild his country and this war would have been overhead he got the weapons he needed sooner. try to me right now s a former director of national intelligence, john ratcliffe to weigh in for a job is great to see her this morning but thanks so much for being here. can you assess the u.s. as a response to the war on ukraine? yes, and partially encapsulates the sad state of american foreign policy under the biden administration for they are sending secretary blinken and secretary austin to project american strength in this situation for these are the two guys there were the architects of the most embarrassing military retreat and surrender frankly in afghanistan in american history. but there are really no good options are you going to send joe biden kamala harris to project american strength there s a problem with capacity of the biden administration to project strength around the world in these situations.
If he s forced into some kind of a humiliating political retreat or, you know, an actual military retreat, it s going to be very hard for him. his whole persona is one of a strongman, and if a strongman isn t strong and actually, you know, faces defeat, i think that, you know, it s possible that somebody in that elite is going to move against him. 0k, and he d be replaced by what? in this world that you envisage where the criticaljuncture, where russia doesn t win president putin is weakened, what happens to him or who is he replaced by? well, it s hard to imagine that there s going to be another right wing dictator waiting in the wings that s going to be worse than him because he s got unlimited ambitions and he s been willing to use the most brutal means to do that. i think that, you know, if he is removed, they re going to come to some kind of a peace settlement that