Rory Stewart

Even the word Greenland would reassure me.

And let me add to that, and I do not accept civilizational erasure.

The thing that's cheered you up and cheers me up is it looks like the policy is to get much closer to Europe.

But my goodness, we seem to be fluffing it on the first test with defence, which should have been the easiest thing of all.

Which was a two-way thing.

Yeah, absolutely.

But it's got to go much beyond that.

We've got to get that feeling that we're thinking about Canada, Australia, Japan, South Korea.

We've got to be thinking about critical minerals, rare earths, AI, all this kind of stuff that I'm talking about.

We've got to have a sense that this is where we need to develop sovereign capacity, be independent.

We need to find a way of being respectful to the US and playing the president's language back against them.

The way you say it is, listen,

Thank you, Mr. President.

You're absolutely right.

We need to be more independent.

You keep saying it.

It's in your national security strategy.

Marco Rubio said it.

We need to stand on our own two feet.

That's why we're going to be spending 3.5% of GDP on defense.