Commodore Steve Jermy
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 20 Jul
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You know, another great failure of NATO, I'm afraid to say, they were not ready for the war.
I mean, if they had thought it through and said that if we keep doing this, then Russia will respond, then actually they would either have made defensive preparations or they wouldn't have done it.
I think we can say with a high degree of certainty that they did not think it through.
So I think there's some lag in there.
And I think there's also, I'm afraid to say, and I think this is probably more European than...
than the United States, although you will know better than the United States.
There's a high degree of Russophobia, which I find it very, very difficult to understand.
I think it's in part our press.
It's in part the narrative that we've built.
It's in part the nature of spin in modern Western politics, where
You know, an event kicks off and people spin to help those parties that are in power stay in power.
And what that means is that the population generally, speaking, start to get deceived.
I don't think they're lied to, but they're deceived because they're presented with one side of the story.
Now, that really matters in war, because in war, you need to be able to look at all sides of the story, which is why I penned the article, The Coming War with Russia, because nobody seemed to have thought what that war might like.
It's very difficult to understand fully, though, the motivations, but I think within those factors, Tucker, you probably got the answer.
If I had to answer the question in one phrase, it's the lack of the ability to think strategically.
There is a wonderful American general who I studied when I was writing on strategy called André Beaufort.
And he said that in war, the loser deserved to lose because his defeat will be a consequence of inadequate strategic thinking, either before or during the conflict.
I think that the institutional lag in entities such as NATO
which had done badly in Afghanistan.
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