Michael Weiss
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard 2 Sep
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But you know what I mean?
If it's allowed to reconstitute itself, it doesn't suffer a strategic defeat in Ukraine.
These are the frontline states that will be doing the heavy lifting for all of us.
The real tragedy here, the missed opportunity is a Republican president coming in in 2024.
There was a lot of capital to work with here.
It's a good thing that we set this new benchmark for NATO, 5% spending of GDP on defense.
I'm not going to
say that he was wrong to do that.
His tactics were miserable.
He threatened to go to war with a NATO ally and annex their territory.
He treated another NATO ally as the 51st state.
I mean, some kind of colonial possession in waiting for the United States.
I mean, it's just idiocy.
However, you know, Europe stands there
waiting to rearm, to invest heavily in its own defense, to take basically post-Cold War security architecture seriously, perhaps for the first time.
And they're not doing it because we're encouraging them and saying, you know, we will always be with you, we will always be by your side, but we need you to take on a greater share of the responsibility.
They're doing it now because they realize we're going in the opposite direction.
We're abandoning them.
I was in Stockholm with the former Lithuanian foreign minister and the current Swedish foreign minister on a platform in August of last year.
And I said – actually quoting Friedrich Merz, the chancellor of Germany who had used this term decoupling from the United States.
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