The Importance of Economic Leadership in Europe

Bridge: It would be logical to assume that if you leave Ukraine Russia does what it wants there the rest of Europe has fewer choices in terms of where their economic relationships come from. China gets its tentacles in even more into this market if the Russians prevail and so you can't focus on deterring Chinese military aggression in the Pacific, he says. Bridge: We have to stop doing other things to focus on that but this idea that it's like this particular effort that we're doing is just simply not realistic to think about it that way.