#NATO: Macron teases troops and Scholz closes the door. Judy Dempsey, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Editor-in-Chief: Strategic Europe, in Berlin.
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🗓️ 28 February 2024
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#NATO: Macron teases troops and Scholz closes the door. Judy Dempsey, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Editor-in-Chief: Strategic Europe, in Berlin.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-02-26/eu-s-new-defense-plan-aims-to-boost-european-military-purchases?srnd=phoenix-europe&sref=5g4GmFHo
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| 0:00.0 | This is CBS I on the world with John Bachelor. |
| 0:07.0 | Here's John Bachelor. |
| 0:12.0 | Europe watching Ukraine crisis. |
| 0:15.0 | Opinions of two major countries and leaders in Europe. |
| 0:21.0 | Financial times in these last hours, Macron says sending Western |
| 0:26.4 | troops to Ukraine cannot be ruled out. Subhead Financial Times. |
| 0:30.5 | French President also drops opposition to artillery purchases for Kief from outside the |
| 0:36.4 | EU and then moving to the London Telegraph, same city looking at the EU where NATO where UK no longer belongs. |
| 0:47.8 | We have a headline Ukraine Russia War Live Schultz, the Chancellor of Germany, rules out NATO troops to Ukraine, the quote from |
| 0:56.2 | the Chancellor. |
| 0:57.6 | Once again, in a very good debate, it was discussed the meeting on Monday of major ministers. It was discussed that what was agreed from the outset among ourselves and with each other also applies to the future. |
| 1:11.0 | Namely that there will be no ground troops, no soldiers on |
| 1:16.4 | Ukrainian soil sent there by European countries or NATO states. I welcome Judy Dempsey, the editor-in-chief of Carnegie Endowment for International |
| 1:28.4 | Peace Strategic Europe, whose columns are very carefully arranged these last days for us to read the wide |
| 1:37.8 | opinions in Europe now from all parts of the EU about the future and Ukraine, many of the remarks turn on two things, the |
| 1:47.5 | threat of Russia and the threat of Donald Trump. |
| 1:51.9 | However, right now we're dealing with another direction which is the threat of troops, |
| 1:57.8 | undetermined troops into Ukraine to support what appears to be a troubled keef. |
| 2:04.5 | Judy, a very good evening to you. |
| 2:06.0 | I've built this up as elaborately as possible |
| 2:09.2 | because there's no determination here. |
| 2:11.4 | There's opinions out of London. There might be misreporting, but in any event right now what it looks like as McCrone says maybe and she says no. Can you sort this out for us? Good day to you Judy. |
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