Don’t mourn for NATO, it’s already dead
The News Agents
Global
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🗓️ 1 April 2026
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Trump warned his EU allies yesterday he wouldn’t forget their cowardice and refusal to help his Iran war. Today he went full throttle and said he was considering taking America out of NATO altogether. It’s not a new thought for him. But is there enough anger in him now to push it through? Would Congress allow it? And what will the rest of us do if we lose Americas defence?
Later the appalling investigation into illegal care homes where vulnerable children are being abused by former convicts whilst unscrupulous owners get rich on our council tax money. Why have so many local authorities seemingly turned a blind eye?
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.1 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:12.5 | There is a consistency to his hatred of NATO and to his fact that America first means sod the lot of it. |
| 0:18.4 | A US withdrawal would defyne NATO. |
| 0:21.6 | It would be a truly enormous moment in the history of post-war Europe. |
| 0:26.6 | Vladimir Putin is having the best day of his life right now. |
| 0:32.6 | NATO is the single most effective military alliance the world has ever seen. And it has kept us safe |
| 0:40.3 | for many decades. And we are fully committed to NATO. Secondly, that whatever the pressure |
| 0:48.3 | on me and others, whatever the noise, I'm going to act in the British national interest in all the decisions that I make. |
| 0:57.0 | And that's why I've been absolutely clear that this is not our war or we're not going to get dragged into it. |
| 1:02.4 | But I'm equally clear that when it comes to defence and security and our economic future, we have to have closer tries with Europe. |
| 1:10.1 | That is Kirstama this morning, extolling the virtues of NATO and what it has done and what it |
| 1:16.9 | has brought and the stability it is given. But the noise is coming from the other side of the |
| 1:21.8 | Atlantic suggest that someone else thinks that NATO is done. |
| 1:27.3 | Trump told the telegraph this morning, when asked if he'd reconsider the US's membership of NATO, |
| 1:33.4 | oh yes, I'd say it's beyond reconsideration. |
| 1:38.1 | Is he actually about to pull out? |
| 1:41.2 | Welcome to the newsagents. |
| 1:47.6 | The news agents. It's John. It's Mayliss. It's Goodall. Lewis Goodall. Since we're doing |
| 1:53.2 | surnames. Shaken or stir? Well, I think a bit of both, actually. We're all of it shaken this morning, |
| 1:57.3 | frankly. Okay. Well, James Bond would struggle to rescue the situation that we currently |
| 2:01.8 | find ourselves in because Donald Trump overnight has kind of gone further than he's done before |
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