Commodore Steve Jermy
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first heard Jul 2026
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And I keep saying to the world, just a second, the Russian told us that if we tried to expand NATO into Georgia or to Ukraine, then it would result in a war.
And indeed, all our clever thinkers told us the same thing.
And surprise, surprise, when we did do that, a war happened.
So Russia do have red lines.
so i think it's wrong to have that guess and the way that risk management works i'm not a great fan of risk management it's used by the financial sector to do risk analysis and as far as i can see it doesn't work for them but what they do do they say if you're thinking about a risk have a think about the impact and the probability now even if the probability is low of russia doing what i've said the impact is profound
So to me, that's a risk which you really need to work very, very hard to think through and to make sure that the population who you're exposing to that risk have been taken on board rather than just crack on without really thinking about it.
So I think there needs to be in Europe a political debate about this and whether we're prepared to let our politicians decide
lead us into a situation where we're exposed to this risk.
And we've been here before in Europe.
It was 2014, 1914, I should say.
You know, the run, Barbara Tuchman's famous book, you know, The Guns of August, where we almost, we fell into the First World War.
People thought it would be over in four months, and four years later, Europe was devastated.
So let's at least try to do the thinking this time around and decide that if we are going to do these things and to poke the bear for ready for a war, which we would lose anyway,
uh let's at least have a have a public debate about that and see how the country feel about it and other countries feel about it because i'm strongly of the view that actually if the country were exposed to what i'm talking about the difference in terms of political support for it would be profound i think the political support for it would fall away
It doesn't matter what the moral issue is.
I happen to think that the moral high ground lies with Russia.
What happens is the issue of power.
And Russia has the balance of power here and overwhelmingly.
So my suspicion is if we were able to have that debate, and I think we should have that debate, then I don't think Europeans would continue to feel quite so much Lucifer because they do.
It's a $64,000 question, and I actually cover that in the article.
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