Commodore Steve Jermy
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516 appearances
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 20 Jul
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You know, the first is the Russian army.
The Chinese will be watching extremely closely.
So the idea that NATO, you know, can, with a disparate group of countries with different levels of forces, with different levels of equipment capabilities, can actually be brought together into a coalition to defeat the most battle-hardened army in the world.
It just doesn't stack up, does it?
You need to be a military man to understand that.
It doesn't stack up.
Unfortunately, a lot of the military people don't understand this.
They're not really interested, as far as I can see, in understanding Russia.
I just find it profound.
I've been listening to a couple.
I was listening recently to one of our former chief of defence staff, and I said in a meeting in which we were at, I said, what do you think about talking to Russia?
And his response was, yes, I think we probably should do that.
But he said, but not Putin.
I thought, well, that's just astonishing that anybody could say that.
And it shows you the degree of Russophobia.
I mean, in my service career, I spent a lot of the time in my service career preparing to fight the Russians.
But when the Cold War came and Partnership for Peace was kicked off,
And we started to engage with the Russians.
Most of us, in my experience, were delighted that we could be in that position.
So quite how we've got back to this situation of seeing Russia as the enemy is a good question.
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