Ivo Daalder
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first heard Mar 2026
last heard 7 Jul
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So under those circumstances, to say that this was, quote, a test for NATO, or second, that NATO is a paper tiger, is never willing to do anything, is frankly beside the point.
It's not going to work.
And it's not going to lead NATO countries to deploy to forces.
Now, if hostilities have ended,
There probably is going to be a European contribution to helping to keep the Strait open or even to open it.
After all, NATO European countries have capabilities the United States no longer has, like minesweepers.
And finally, just to point out, NATO bases in Germany, in other countries, are being used every single day.
to facilitate the ability of the United States to conduct this war.
Without NATO, without Europe, the United States couldn't be doing what it's doing today.
Well, if we hadn't bombed, the Strait would be open.
And I think that's the fundamental point.
The Strait was open.
It was closed because of the bombing.
I think if there had been consultations with the European nations, as indeed there was prior to the Iraq war, deep consultations, although Europe was divided, NATO was divided.
that we might have come up with a strategy to say, how do we put maximum pressure on Iran to achieve what we want to achieve, which is an Iran that does not have nuclear weapons, which by the way, it doesn't, and it hasn't had nuclear weapons, in part because of negotiations, in part because of sanctions, in part because of pressure.
but certainly because of diplomacy, that it reduces its ballistic missile inventory and that it cuts its support for proxies.
We could have had a joint strategy.
That's not what the president of the United States did.
He worked it out with the Israeli government.
He ignored pleas from the Gulf allies who said, do not do this because it is going to affect our security, as indeed it has.
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