Shaun Walker
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first heard Apr 2025
last heard 8 Jul
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with the Secretary General of NATO, the way he's really been sort of almost sucking up to Trump.
There was one diplomat who said to me, you know, it's cringe, but we don't mind as long as it delivers Trump.
But obviously there is this question of does it deliver Trump or is, you know, does Trump just sort of pocket the compliments and carry on on his own Trumpian way, which...
seems to be mostly the dynamic.
So I think there's this kind of second school of thought, which is that, okay, we shouldn't try to blow this up.
We should try and calm things down where possible, but we have to assume that the US under Trump and maybe under whoever follows Trump is no longer the big strategic ally, the big partner.
And we have to try and get ready
for some kind of reality where maybe once there's a ceasefire in Ukraine, Putin launches an attack on NATO and the US isn't there.
And I think more and more people are talking about that, but still quite scared of it.
And it's still a process because, you know, just to reiterate, I mean, the US military side in NATO, not to mention the intelligence gathering and so on.
I mean, it is irreplaceable in the short term.
And a lot of people are cognizant of that.
Yeah, I mean, the Iran situation clearly has irritated Trump a lot.
I mean, again, perhaps surprising for some allies.
You saw Mark Rutter today really kind of supporting Trump on Iran, saying it was essentially a great thing to launch that military action.
I mean, to me, it feels like the kind of heart of this is,
there's a kind of strange paradox in the way Trump looks at allies, because on the one hand, they're saying, look, we're not the global hegemon anymore that's going to come in and sort things out for you.
You have to pay your own way.
You have to be more independent.
But at the same time, when the US acts unilaterally on something like Iran without even consulting its allies and Europe says, well, actually, you know, we don't like this.
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