Michael Weiss

And, you know, he was in favor of the handover of Chagos.

Now he's not.

I think everyone is quite aware that they carry no weight with Trump in terms of trying to persuade him to do something that he has otherwise set his mind on.

on doing and everyone treads very very lightly right you know there's a lot of hatred and understandable in one sense but i think also a little unfair in another toward the secretary general of nato mark ruta i have to understand mark ruta's background is in hr my wife's background is in hr and from an hr perspective which is a line i hear very often in my household

what mark roth is trying to do what mark roth is trying to do his job is to keep nato alive together right and he's he's bending the knee he's talking about daddy uh he's he's flattering and cajoling uh trump as best he can because in the next three years there is a credible risk with donald trump as president that nato would cease to exist in all that name

Article 5 could be tested by the Russians or by other actors.

And if collective defense doesn't work because the United States refuses to send troops, that's the end of NATO, right?

And I think this is a perspective that for the last year has obtained among a lot of European leadership.

It's beginning to change now because Donald Trump has already essentially torn up

You know, the NATO charter by threatening to go to war with a NATO ally over sovereign NATO and European territory.

Right.

He wants Greenland.

He wants title, as he says.

And he wants the Danes to either sell it.

And if they don't sell it, he wants to send the troops.

Now, he seems to have been talked off that ledge a little bit, but he keeps mentioning Greenland.

So it's we're not quite there.

done with that portfolio yet.

That issue, I think more than even Ukraine or anything else, has persuaded quite a lot of Europeans that the party's over.

I think that Rubio doesn't believe half or even most of the shit that he says.