Rebeccah Heinrichs, senior fellow at the Hudson Institute and the director of its Keystone Defense Initiative, joins the show to talk about the state of U.S. deterrence of Russia, Iran, and China—and what Washington could be doing better.
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    •      01:42 Introduction 
    •      02:18 Conventional and strategic deterrence
    •      04:06 A failure of strategic deterrence
    •      09:38 Integrated deterrence 
    •      13:33 Putin is committed to the bit  
    •      15:36 If Russia wins, what’s it to the US? 
    •      19:16 Options if Russia uses nuclear weapons
    •      24:06 The pendulum keeps swinging  
    •      28:20 Washington’s confusion regarding Iran and Israel
    •      31:56 Red Sea adrift
    •      36:00 China and the rest
    •      40:01 Pacific flashpoints
  
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