1/2: #BERLIN: SEEKING SECURITY WITHOUT THE US. JUDY DEMPSEY, CARNEGIE.
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 5 March 2025
⏱️ 11 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is CBS Eye on the World. Here's John Batchelor. |
| 0:11.5 | I welcome my good colleague Judy Dempsey, senior scholar of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. She's in Berlin. |
| 0:19.9 | I go to the London Financial Times, the pink |
| 0:23.4 | newspaper, with alarming headlines in all directions. U.S. suspends military aid to Ukraine and |
| 0:30.1 | Ukraine to run out of U.S. weapons by summer. And Trump jolts the world with Ukraine and tariff moves. |
| 0:38.8 | Judy, a very good evening to you. |
| 0:40.1 | Let us begin with Ukraine. |
| 0:42.0 | The events of Friday the 28th of February are burned in everyone's imagination as we keep reviewing what is to be done. |
| 0:50.2 | There was a meeting for Mr. Zelensky within the next 24 hours in London, I believe, |
| 0:55.4 | with many of the principles of the European Union and NATO participating looking for a solution. |
| 1:00.7 | You're in Berlin, and you see the German media responding as I cannot understand. |
| 1:06.6 | What is the general sense? |
| 1:08.1 | With a new government coming in, weeks to go, two men really in charge now, the future |
| 1:14.6 | chancellor, Mr. Merritt, and the present chancellor, Mr. Schultz, their opinion of where we are. |
| 1:21.3 | Good evening to you, Judy. |
| 1:24.1 | Good evening, John. |
| 1:25.5 | And thank you for having me on your show again. It's a great question |
| 1:28.7 | they are together on all of this, actually. And over the past couple of days, if not a week or two, |
| 1:35.5 | the incoming Chancellor of Friedrich Mercer has become even more radical, more pessimistic |
| 1:39.8 | about the nature of the transatlantic relationship, and more pushing that the Europeans really now have to work together |
| 1:48.4 | for capabilities, for defence, and for actually looking out for Ukraine. |
| 1:54.8 | This is a seminal change in the German outlook |
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