James Holmes, the J.C. Wylie Chair of Maritime Strategy at the Naval War College, joins the show to discuss sea power, the war in Ukraine, and the possibility of war in the Pacific
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00:58 - Introduction
01:57 - Time spent considering Russia and the NATO alliance’s naval power
04:05 - Russian President Vladimir Putin’s grand strategy
05:35 - What does Ukraine mean to Putin?
06:58 - The Crimean War
10:32 - Closing the Bosporus
16:15 - Does the war end well for Putin?
21:28 - Zelensky’s survival
23:12 - Worst-case scenario for Putin
25:43 - What the outcome in Ukraine will mean for Taiwan
28:35 - China’s challenge in Taiwan
31:02 - How security concerns in the early American Republic influence China’s thinking
35:25 - Should the United States shift national security focus to Asia?
