Ivo Daalder
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first heard Mar 2026
last heard 7 Jul
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And in this case, the vote was to close the Strait of Hormuz and they didn't prepare for it.
Well, I'm not sure there's much of a conversation other than perhaps Marco Rubio talking to his G7 counterparts in Paris.
I mean, let me make two points.
Number one, 25 years ago, the United States was attacked by Al Qaeda.
And for the first and only time, NATO, at the behest of not of the United States, but of its allies, invoked Article 5, which is the collective defense act.
provision of the North Atlantic Treaty saying that an armed attack against one shall be regarded as an armed attack against all.
Not only did they invoke Article 5, they deployed massive amounts, tens of thousands of troops to Afghanistan.
Our allies lost well over a thousand troops in a war.
So for the President of the United States to say today that NATO doesn't do anything for the United States, that NATO is never there for us, when in fact,
The 25 years he invokes was the timeframe in which NATO did that is frankly obscene.
And it is regarded by Europeans as obscene because they lost troops to defend the United States and the United States security interests.
Not because they thought it was important for their security, but they thought it was important for America's security.
And that's what allies do.
Number two, NATO is a defensive alliance.
It responds to an armed attack on it.
There is no armed attack on NATO.
The only attack that occurred was an Israeli-U.S.
attack on Iran, which many, in fact, I would say most Europeans regard as illegal under international law, unnecessary given that the diplomacy was still a possibility, and reckless.
in ignoring the outcome that could have happened.
And I think Chancellor Merz is expressing that.
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