Dr. Janice Stein

It's not.

And he is in political difficulty at home.

It's not Macron who is in the declining year of its presidency with a really unstable domestic situation at home and barely gets a budget through.

So it's not him.

It's not Chancellor Merz of Germany, because, you know, NATO, the purpose of NATO, as I think we said last week, was to keep the Russians out of Europe, the Germans down, and the U.S.

in.

There's apprehension in Europe.

Again, the German question is sneaking its way back.

into European discussions, the Germans are going to be the most heavily armed among the bigger powers in Europe based on current trends.

There would be a lot of reluctant staff, a German chancellor, any German chancellor.

So that knocks out the Europeans.

So we can only go two places, right, with this list because it's clearly not the Australian prime minister, you know, and it's not the prime minister of Japan.

So, you know, it could be.

Prime Minister Carney, who got the attention.

Really?

No, no, it could be.

And the reason we can't, it won't be.

He clearly, again, that speech in Davos is still...

rippling through the conversation they feel that he was the first one to say there's a rupture he called it out um and there's a lot of admiration and respect for him for that it wasn't so much of his prescriptions about what to do but he called it out but frankly we can't be because

If we think that the British cut back on military preparedness, we are the laggard of the group.