Bob Kagan

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The Bulwark Daily · Robert Kagan: We’re Transitioning to a Post-American World · 3 Apr 2026 podcast

Was Germany going to have a world-class Navy?

No, we had a distribution where we were the ones with the world-class Navy.

And now we're asking them, why don't you just take care of this?

I can't, Trump is unbelievable.

He says, it's easy.

Why don't you just do it?

You know, we,

Here we are with all the firepower that we have, and we don't want to send our ship in because, as Hegs says, they're going to shoot at us.

But the Europeans should do that.

So the notion of saying that we can't do something because the Allies are not letting us, or that even if they're not letting us use their air bases in Spain, that had no effect on really what we were able to do here.

So that's the first thing.

The second thing, of course, is we didn't even go to NATO.

for this operation.

You know, I believe that if Trump had done what we do with our allies, because, you know, we have this whole thing about an alliance and we have like consultations and we have a NATO ambassador who like organizes things.

You go to them and you say, look, we need to do this Iran operation.

We want your support.

Here's what we need from you.

Let's talk about it.

Let's work our way through with it.

Let me tell you something.

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