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A Russian tanker loaded with 40,000 tons of diesel is en route to New York. It is the first shipment under President Trump's deal with Vladimir Putin to try to lower fuel prices here at home. This is Ukraine warns that China and Russia are working together on a Starlink alternative, one that could provide Moscow with a major battlefield advantage. Arnold Panaro is a retired two-star Marine Corps general, also CEO of the Panaro Group, and joins us now. General, great to see you. So 40,000 metric tons of diesel turns into about 12.5 million gallons. People say, wow, 12.5 million gallons. That's less than 8% of our daily consumption of diesel. And diesel, according to AAA, $6.31 a gallon today. Is this going to make any difference? John, that's just a couple of hours of usage in a day here. Look, reducing fuel prices is a very valid, legitimate, and necessary policy goal. The president has a number of very positive initiatives in that regard. However, I don't think that lifting sanctions on Russia and buying diesel fuel from Russia and fueling their war machine, which just yesterday had a massive another ballistic missile attack on Kyiv, killing women, children, knocking out their energy grid so the Ukrainians were free. So my hope would be they kind of change their mind, beef up the other initiatives they have, turn that tanker around and go in a different direction. I'm kind of identify with the chairman of the Armed Services Committee, Republican Roger Wicker. i'm in the same camp with him on this regard yes i mean tell us about russia here putin says he is willing to come back to the table for trilateral talks with with ukraine there may be something on the books for next month and then he launches this all out assault like he did what's he doing look that russia is russia putin's goal is to basically move back to the old soviet empire territory which means he wants to move west he was never going to stop at ukraine that's why we've got to stop him in ukraine so he hasn't changed his stripe any more than iran has changed their stripe he's not getting anywhere which is i mean that's the crazy thing about all of this but he is apparently according to some reports partnering with china on something that could gain him battlefield advantage it's an alternative to Starlink it's called Rosa dag what could that do well first of all anything that we could do to keep Russia from building keep China from building Russia's military capability particularly a technological advance like that that would help their command and control. Look, Starlink is a brilliant piece of technology and it's very necessary. Ukraine uses it to help defend itself. Our Pentagon and our leadership there is encouraging more and more commercial firms to bring their technology into the Pentagon. So we should not want Russia to get anything that's anywhere equivalent to that. The other point I would make, because it's been in the news, and that is we should not have anything we get from commercial. Private citizens should not be in the position of dictating how that material is used on the battlefield no matter how influential that's an inherently governmental decision private citizens should not be involved in that so let me just decipher that so you're saying Elon Musk should stay the heck out certainly if he's a private citizen and that's his technology and he is by the way our pentagon our pentagon leaders this is what they're why they're mad with Anthropic because Anthropic told them you can't use some of our capabilities so we can't have that so when he landed in Fort Myers president Trump was asked a question about One of his ambassadors is saying that there might be a strike against Iran this weekend. And the president's saying, well, I don't know who you're talking to because I don't know anything about that. But early November, we're going to have a third carrier strike group in the region. Tremendous amount of firepower to have just sitting around. What do you think is going to happen after the midterms? Well, John, today is a very meaningful day for our country and the United States Marine Corps. Forty-three years ago today, Iran and its terrorist proxies killed 241 Marines in the barracks in Beirut. and they've not changed their stripes at all so they continue so at some point and we need to make sure we have all the capabilities so the president has an unlimited set of options to use i personally continue to believe the only way we're going to get on top of this and in the war like everybody says is we've got to take out the center of gravity we've got to take out the IRGC Republican Guards that led the attack on the Marine barracks in Beirut today at Camp Lejeune, there's a memorial like there is every year to honor those that made the ultimate sacrifice. So Iran's time is coming. I don't think it will come before the mid years. Well, they seem to be completely out of money. So we'll see where this goes. General, always good to catch up with you. Have a great weekend. Great to be here. Sandra, be sure to like and subscribe for all the Fox News latest on YouTube and catch full shows streaming now on Fox One.