reported there's been a bit of a shake up going on here discussed as former pentagon official michael maloof michael welcome back and we've got these five big ones out there you know northrop grumman and lockheed eccentric but there's this new one elf three harris that we've talked about which is a big home and are they already shaking things up they have begun to shake things up even though they're listed as number ten in the pecking order they are very see . if for example they are teaming up with others with the other prime contractors for sensor systems and and electronics systems that will go into aircraft primarily for not only for military but homeland defense in the on the military side that putting more electronics into aircraft and this is where they ran into a little bit of competition with some of the big guys they they actually air force actually allowed them to choose the aircraft in which they wouldn't incorporate what's called the compass call it's an autonomous electronic attacks system and they actually could name the aircraft the air force said so that is a big deal for a.

ok let's go back to michael maloof in washington we had to cut you off we had to go hard break finish up my friend you know it one thing that's not been mentioned all that much in western media is the fact that for months leading up to this this episode. ukrainian ships were also detaining russian ships in that very same area and that's been going back and forth back and forth because of the protocols and the challenges that are required so this is not just a one sided thing and if and this morning there was a an interview of the captain of the ukrainian ships who basically said we were asked to provide information and what it what our intentions were and we and my my orders from higher authority was don't respond. so it really looks like it was a planned provocation but well i think i think it's quite clear to anyone that wants to look at the facts here and really you already mention nato here nato. popped up or immediately to talking about ukraine i mean ukraine is not a member of nato number one ok and it should be made clear here and also this seems to be a provocation on a larger

a chef ski she is a columnist for the independent and the guardian and in washington we have michael maloof he is a former senior security policy analyst in the office of the secretary of defense all right crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate mary let me go to you first here. i obviously read up on prepared for this program i looked at all of western media and government reactions and foreign policy an article that came out on the twenty seventh and the title is putin pushes russia ukraine tensions to a four year high now the reason i mention that and i think i'll quote something of it later is that there's there's something that they can assume what russia's intentions are always no matter what the topic but in this instance there's very little attention given to what ukraine actually did and then russia's reaction to those actions here again we have these diametrical different. narratives in play here one of demonization and one is a wrong party when it's far more complex than that and far more dangerous than that go ahead barry. we

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a chef ski she is a columnist for the independent and the guardian and in washington we have michael maloof he is a former senior security policy analyst in the office of the secretary of defense all right cross talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate mary let me go to you first here. i obviously read up on prepared for this program i looked at all of western media and government reactions and i have foreign policy an article that came out the twenty seventh and the title is putin pushes russia ukraine tensions to a four year high now the reason i mention that and i think i'll quote something of it later is that there's there's something that they can assume what russia's intentions are always no matter what the topic but in this instance there's.

a chef ski she is a columnist for the independent and the guardian and in washington we have michael maloof he is a former senior security policy analyst in the office of the secretary of defense all right cross talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate mary let me go to you first here.