Mark Landler
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314 appearances
5 recordings
2 series
first heard Mar 2025
last heard 30 Jul
Mark Landler’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And I think this is what Carney is talking about.
It's messier, it's riskier, it's more expensive, but in this predatory world, it may be the best that these middle powers can hope for.
Generations.
Europe, because it was under this American security umbrella since the end of World War II, would have to take literally decades to build up an independent security force that had no reliance or little reliance on the United States.
And that would involve extremely difficult decisions by governments about how to spend public resources.
Remember, these are countries that are used to generous social welfare programs, welfare programs that are funded by
by governments that historically did not have to spend as much on defense in the military as the United States did.
So that's on one level.
On the economic level, it is true that these countries, at least in theory, do have some leverage.
On the trade front, for example, the European Union can impose what they call anti-coercion measures against other countries, including the United States.
This is something that's colloquially known as the bazooka.
Well, so a bazooka is basically a series of very draconian
measures that the Europeans can impose on another country that they think has hit them with unfair trade practices.
And of course, that would be very painful for the many American companies and investors that do business in Europe.
So that is a form of leverage.
But there seems to be well short of unanimity within the European Union about using measures like that.
And that goes to what is the perennial problem with Europe, which is achieving enough unity around any of these positions to make them truly effective when you're facing, you know, a major adversary like the United States.
There's a huge risk to it.
At this moment, Trump is saying he's not going to impose the additional new tariffs he had threatened.
But he goes back and forth on tariffs all the time.
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