Phil Stewart
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Defense Secretary not, you know, stand up for the collective defense of NATO because experts warn that vacillation at the DOD level, at the Pentagon level,
is something quite different than having the President of the United States make comments as he has for years, kind of denigrating NATO or saying things that make people question what he thinks.
One is the question about whether NATO, as NATO, could ever get involved in a war like this.
And the answer is no.
It's a defensive alliance.
And unless NATO is attacked, or unless a NATO ally is attacked, you really can't invoke Article 5.
But the other question, and the one that is going to be harder for NATO allies to address in a way that might be satisfactory to President Trump, is why they will allow things like overflight of their territories.
Yeah, I mean, it's fascinating.
So actually, it's funny you ask.
But to be on the bus, you need a different kind of badge, not the one they got.
And so the judge used the word Kafkaesque to describe the policy.
And he also called it a catch-22, where it's
But the question is, are you providing access or not?
Because that was the order.
We're Colombian.
We have an opinion, but it's not based on an American view, so have that in mind.
Okay.
The U.S., I don't think, should send troops to Iran.
I don't think sending troops anywhere is a great idea.
Shame.