Commodore Steve Jermy
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 20 Jul
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And I don't know what the answer is.
But, I mean, to me, the answer is let's at least think carefully about what we're trying to do with these long-range weapons and fight attacks into Russia.
And let's also think about diplomacy.
I mean, the fact that we can have meetings where the West is talking about solutions to the Russia-Ukraine war
and triumphantly exclude one of the belligerents and its diplomatic incompetence of the highest order I can see.
We, in the very difficult British and Irish relationships during the Troubles in Ireland, maintained diplomatic, very, very subtle diplomatic engagement throughout almost the whole of that war.
And thank goodness we did.
What we need, I think, is to at least think about this alternative pathway to peace.
I'm sure it's there.
I've often thought that one of the biggest problems is NATO.
NATO at the moment is a bit of a self-licking lollipop.
What I once said, NATO exists to confront a threat which is created by its own existence.
It doesn't have the power to confront the threat that its existence has created.
So I think NATO, to my mind, is a key part of the problem here.
Yeah.
It was in a real, it was in a, um, um,
one of the Quincy Institute's responsible statecraft article about 18 months ago.
I mean, it's so obvious, you know, and yet people think that NATO is omnipotent.
So I think that understanding that actually the NATO guarantee is, I wouldn't say it's as little as paper, but it is much less comprehensive than people think because it relies on military forces, which are, to my mind, nowhere near as battle-hardened as Russians are.
You know, the second best army in the world, I would say, at the moment in terms of battle-hardened is the Ukrainian army.
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