John Micklethwaite

When we come off as urgent or even critical about decisions that Europe has failed to make or made, it is because we care.

It is because we understand that ultimately our own fate will be intertwined with what happens with Europe.

We want Europe to survive.

We want Europe to prosper because we're interconnected in so many different ways and because our alliance is so critical.

But it has to be an alliance of allies that are capable and willing.

has with Europe when it comes to China.

We should never be in a situation where our alliance and our respective countries are vulnerable to extortion or blackmail because someone controls 9% of something that's critical to national life.

So I think we do have a vested interest in that regard.

Today is different than yesterday, but it has parallels, not in that China's the new Soviet Union, but that