Robert Pape
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is going to make the key decisions and sort out the roles and missions for everybody.
Because if you don't have a sink, a commander in chief in a theater, that's what a sink is, commander in chief, everybody's going to not know their piece of what they're supposed to do, their geographic location.
All of that needs to be sorted out or you can't efficiently fight and you'll have a lot of friendly fire casualty and all kinds of other problems.
So you need an integrated command structure if you're going to have what's called a combined set of militaries where you have militaries from other countries coming together.
Well, that was the beauty of NATO, which is we run the show militarily, not just as we're the biggest 800-pound gorilla on the planet.
Well, now what you've had, not just last year we had Trump tariffs hurting different countries,
Something very different happened with Iran.
What happened with Iran is that when President Trump failed strategically, tactically succeeded but failed strategically, what did he say?
He wanted the European militaries to send the militaries because we weren't going to put our ships in harm's way.
Think about that.
This is too dangerous for our ships to go into harm's way.
And what he said is he wanted them to put their ships in harm's way.
Once you did that, I think there is no way that any European political leader or a military leader is going to essentially follow orders under Article 5 by General Kane.
So what Article 5 would mean, again, that as an American commander's
who are going to be running the show, essentially, here.
And what happened with this war is we have shown that by the lack of strategy, by the disastrous way this has unfolded, and then on top of all that, Patrick, for President Trump to say,
We want you to throw your bodies in front of our bodies.
This is not this isn't going to work.
And I am not at all surprised that what you see is Stormer.
That's the leader in Britain here.