Thomas Grove
Appearances
Apple News Today
Marchers for Israeli hostages attacked in Colorado. Here’s what to know.
Putin really used all the levers of the state to make the country as effective as possible in fighting the war. On the economic side, they basically just ramped up production of every major weapons system that they possibly could.
Apple News Today
Marchers for Israeli hostages attacked in Colorado. Here’s what to know.
First and foremost, we've seen a massive injection of cash from the state put into the defense industry. And that's seen new factories being built. We've seen new production lines, expansion of production lines. And so we've seen this kind of massive ramp up of the defense sector.
Apple News Today
Marchers for Israeli hostages attacked in Colorado. Here’s what to know.
They were in desperate need of men, especially towards the end of 2022. So in addition to mobilizing, they also created this kind of huge incentive system where they basically gave people, in some cases, as much as they would earn in an entire year as that signing bonus.
Apple News Today
Marchers for Israeli hostages attacked in Colorado. Here’s what to know.
The success economically and in terms of attracting people has made a lot of analysts and policymakers in NATO very worried about, you know, what happens next. What kind of military are they going to have whenever the fighting's over? You know, once the fighting stops in Ukraine, can it pull back? And I think there's a lot of people who feel as though it will have trouble doing that.
WSJ What’s News
Trump’s ‘Golden Dome’ Riles Nuclear-Armed Rivals
Was wir hier betrachten, ist ein System, das die Art und Weise ändert, wie wir die nuklearen Waffen verstehen, als eines der größten nuklearen Kräfte auf der Erde. Russland ist etwas größer, mit mehr Kriegsführern. Aber durch den Kalten Krieg betrachten wir den Mutual Assured Destruction. Das war das Körnerstein der Deterrenzen.
WSJ What’s News
Trump’s ‘Golden Dome’ Riles Nuclear-Armed Rivals
Wir wollten nicht unseren Opponenten schießen, weil wir wussten, dass wir in Retaliation getroffen werden würden. Und so schifft sich das ganze Paradigm und schafft eine defensive Schiede, How does President Trump envision this defense system working? So he's looking at ground-based, space-based interceptors and he's very much put it as a shield against rogue states.
WSJ What’s News
Trump’s ‘Golden Dome’ Riles Nuclear-Armed Rivals
And quite honestly, whenever previous administrations that have looked at missile defense shields and things like that, it's very much against rogue states because quite honestly... Es wäre sehr schwierig, sich gegen Peer-Missile zu schützen.
WSJ What’s News
Trump’s ‘Golden Dome’ Riles Nuclear-Armed Rivals
Die Logik ist, dass das, was Nordkorea oder Iran potenziell auslösen würde, vielleicht weniger technologisch verbessert wäre als, sagen wir, was Russland, zum Beispiel.
WSJ What’s News
Trump’s ‘Golden Dome’ Riles Nuclear-Armed Rivals
Most military experts believe that just even getting such a system in place would be tremendous effort in terms of getting the number of satellites that you need, in terms of getting the interceptors in place. They would say that getting it all in place before the end of Trump's term would be an even more difficult ask.
WSJ What’s News
Europe’s Dawning Terror Threat? Young Online Radicals
We have heads of state of about 25 countries from Africa, Asia. There's an EU member, Robert Fizzo, of Slovakia. He was... threatened with countermeasures by the EU if he did show up, but he's there nonetheless.
WSJ What’s News
Europe’s Dawning Terror Threat? Young Online Radicals
The thing about Xi for Putin is that it really confers on Russia this idea that it's still a great power, which, to be fair, has slipped in recent years as Moscow has focused more narrowly on Ukraine. China is a big partner for Russia, both in terms of diplomatic support, in terms of dual-use technology that ends up on the front line. And Xi is also there for four days.
WSJ What’s News
Europe’s Dawning Terror Threat? Young Online Radicals
It's a very long visit, and it means a lot for Putin, obviously.