Dr. Janice Stein

They are very critical of the Secretary General of NATO.

for being as polite as he was when he went to see Trump.

And they're digging in for really two things, two and a half more years of this.

And the conversation about rearming, it was an early go on that.

They are doubling down on this.

And their view is there is no choice.

There is a five-year runway to get this done, and they're doubling down.

Not a word.

Not a single word.

And again, you know, and the majority were British, obviously, although there were Europeans there.

But if you look at Britain's historic relationships, where are they?

They're in the Gulf.

And so there were also people from the Gulf, Oman, Bahrain, at the meeting.

And

You know, it is the Gulf states who are left really exposed, caught in the middle of this, especially the smaller ones, not so much Saudi Arabia and the Emirates, but all the others, Oman, Bahrain, Dubai.

they're not big enough geographically to really be able to defend themselves and their whole model of the last 20 years is put at risk by this and what's going to them frankly Peter is that they don't feel their voices were heard by the White House at all and that they were given no consideration

to that, obviously.

You know, someone asked, is this the United States' Suez?

Right?

That refers to the Suez Crisis in 1956 when Britain and France, together with Israel, invaded Egypt after President Nasser had nationalized the Suez Canal, which the British, when it ran the world, had built.