On this episode of the DefAero Report Daily Podcast, sponsored by Bell, Byron Callan of the independent Washington research firm Capital Alpha Partners discusses takeaways from last week’s first quarter 2022 earnings results by leading US defense contractors, how President Biden’s $33 billion aid package for Ukraine changes industrial prospects, whether European defense spending will be sustained, and a look at the week ahead; and Dr. David Asher, one of the world’s leading experts on sanctions who served in the Bush and Obama administrations and now with the Hudson Institute, discusses the efficacy of unprecedented sanctions already imposed on Russia, how to make them even tougher, and imposing secondary sanctions on China, India and other nations that continue to trade with Moscow with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian.