Hannah Lucinda Smith
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 9 Jul
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Turkey occupies this place on the eastern flank of NATO, which is incredibly important.
However, just glossing over the abuses that are going on in Turkey right now,
I mean, then what's the point of NATO?
And then I think you start getting back to the point that you made, Coco, which is then I get it when people in other parts of the world say, well, you say you're for democracy and human rights and rule of law and yet one of your kind of key members is doing this.
I mean, you've sort of got to feel a bit bad for Keir Starmer, haven't you?
I mean, he is not going to anchor a...
with a lot to sort of support him.
You know, he's obviously a lame duck prime minister.
Probably within a couple of weeks, Andy Burnham is more than likely going to be our prime minister.
We have no idea, actually, what Burnham's defence or security policy is going to be.
I mean, he's just never really talked about these things.
But also, I mean, the resignation of John Healey, the former defence secretary, a few weeks ago, over this exact issue of defence spending.
You know, I...
I do think, actually, Trump's kind of flip-flopping and, yeah, on occasion outright hostility to Europe actually has had the effect of bringing European countries together a little bit more.
There's a bit more European solidarity going on.
And I think particularly, you know, for a country like the UK, I mean...
which basically just gave the massive middle finger to Europe a decade ago with Brexit, right, and continued to do so under various governments.
I think, you know, I think this will have the effect of bringing Britain back into that European fold a little bit.
You know, of course, I think what...
NATO probably really wants is for Donald Trump to walk away saying what a great Alliance it is.
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