Stephen Blank: “This is not an incursion. This is an invasion”

With Reuben Johnson, Stephen Blank, Bill Walton and Grant Newsham

REUBEN JOHNSON, Defense Technology Analyst and Political Affairs Correspondent, Frequent Contributor, Breaking Defense and Washington Free Beacon

• Reuben Johnson talks about the rhetoric used by Russian propagandists to slow international retaliation: “This is what the Russians always, always do, is try to find daylight between the allies…try to get us to start arguing between each other”
• Johnson: “If Ukraine is allowed to be taken and dismembered and destroyed, anyone who’s working in the non-nuclear proliferation business better go find another job because…no country is going to give up its nuclear weapons after this”

STEPHEN BLANK, Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Research Institute, Author, forthcoming “Light From the East: Russia’s Quest for Great Power Status in Asia”

• Dr. Stephen Blank talks about Russian interference in Ukraine: “This is not an incursion. This is an invasion. It’s outright aggression”
• Blank argues that although Ukraine is by no definition a “perfect Democracy,” “we’ve taken governments into NATO because they were strategically vital when they were by no means democratic”

BILL WALTON, Chairman, Resolute Protector Foundation, Host, The Bill Walton Show, Senior Fellow, Discovery Institute’s Center on Wealth, Poverty and Morality, @billwaltonshow

• Bill Walton talks about the Chinese real-estate market: “[Residential real-estate] comprises 30% of [the People’s Republic of China’s] GDP and compare that with roughly 16-17% here in the U.S. And just in January the hundred largest property developers saw their sales fall 40%…”
• Walton talks about China’s multilateral decline over the past 40 years

GRANT NEWSHAM, Senior Fellow, Center for Security Policy, Senior Research Fellow, Japan Forum for Strategic Studies, Contributor, Asia Times, @NewshamGrant

• Grant Newsham talks about the uptick of Russia’s military capabilities over the past 20 years and the current crisis in Ukraine
• Will Vladimir Putin “consolidate his winnings” by invading the entirely of the Donbas region and even more?

Reuben Johnson

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Stephen Blank

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Bill Walton

Your owner's manual for your most important possession: Your freedom

Grant Newsham Pt.1

Your owner's manual for your most important possession: Your freedom

Grant Newsham Pt.2

Your owner's manual for your most important possession: Your freedom

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