Dan Bongino

I mean, that's not it's not a silo, but it's a lot.

You've got Russia over there.

You've got, you know, China not far away.

You've got Iran with ballistic missiles that can reach you.

You know, it's time to act like it.

You better start producing the money, the weaponry, the warfare and the public backing where you guys are publicly behind us or the American people are going to be like, hey, man, we're out.

We're done.

I think Europe's just lost.

I think they're rudderless.

I don't think they actually know what they stand for.

It's not even clear that they stand for their own people.

We saw JD Vance and Marco Rubio over the course of two years give speeches of different tones, but the same substance, which is Europe needs to rediscover its history and recommit to Western civilization.

Because if it doesn't, this whole, everything collapses.

I mean, it really matters a great deal that Europe protects its legacy.

you know the the popular the civilization that gave us the magna carta i mean come on we need to restore that and um and that's not there right now there's it's kind of a lost identity and in that lost identity i don't think they even really understand what nato's for i mean once the soviet union collapsed they they just thought that nato was going to be some sort of rescue operation for them consistently and that they could just be a bunch of deadbeats now

as i know you mentioned on your show yesterday there's of course examples uh when it came to after 9 11 we had nato partners that were helping us that's all very valuable and it's the kind of thing that they should do for sure but here in this present moment uh it has been just an atrocity that nato hasn't stepped up to take care of concerns that are actually more immediate to them than they are to us i mean the strait of hormuz is responsible for so much of the world's energy but fundamentally most of that energy goes to that region it goes to europe it goes to asia

I mean, the reason China got involved reportedly in the deal yesterday to try and get Iran to the table is because 40% of their energy comes through the Strait of Hormuz.

That's what induced them to get involved here.

And so it's just disappointing, actually.

It's just, I look at it and shake my head because President Trump has been fighting to strengthen that alliance.