Alistair MacDonald
speaker
97 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 24 Jul
Alistair MacDonald’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But then if you have the French one, the FCAS, nobody knows where Spain's going to go.
And then the Germans are talking about doing their own one.
And then you still have Sweden with its...
Then you've got a lot of different planes, basically, and that's sort of sucking up spending.
the required NATO spending of 2% of GDP.
It's kept above that.
I mean, your listeners will know the UK was once a global military superpower.
That's no longer so, of course, but it's still considered a very, very valuable ally for somebody like the US.
It has excellent special forces.
Its troops are considered very well-trained.
It still has some varied gear.
It's, of course, a nuclear power.
It can project force because it has aircraft carriers and it has nuclear submarines.
But the trouble is, is that that's not really enough for
Yeah, that was right.
It only really had one frigate it could send out there.
And this is a country that wants boasters of ruling the waves.
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