On this week’s Defense & Aerospace Report Washington Roundtable, Dr. Patrick Cronin of the Hudson Institute, Michael Herson of American Defense International, former DoD Europe chief Jim Townsend now with the Center for a New American Security, and former Pentagon Comptroller Dr. Dov Zakheim of the Center for Strategic and International Studies join host Vago Muradian to discuss House and Senate defense authorization and House defense appropriations markups, update on Ukraine supplemental that can become a vehicle for Pentagon budget plus up, allies pledge to rebuild Ukraine and whether more than $300 billion in Russian assets should be sent to Kyiv, update on Ukraine’s offensive, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s state visit to the United States and the messages the visit sends to China and the world, Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s meeting with Xi Jinping to de-escalate tensions between the two nations, what Washington should do next now that Chinese shipments of gunpowder to Russia have been confirmed, how White House efforts to toward an “understanding” with Tehran could jeopardize the Abraham Accords, and the implications of recent of Israeli-Palestinian violence.
