I'm John Bachelors with my colleague Ger Koppley,

and publisher of Defense and Foreign Affairs.

Gregory mentions the four bombers that flew inside the Air Defense Identification Zone

of the defense of North America.

That is not only Norad, that's NATO.

So we go to NATO's meeting in Washington in which a new

Secretary, General Secretary Mark Rudy of the Netherlands, now to lead a

known-Hawk. At the same time, Cayac Kales the Prime Minister of Estonia named the foreign

minister of the EU a known Hawk at the meeting in Washington were representatives

from Japan and South Korea.

So the first obvious question is, is NATO ready to expand into the Pacific?

Is it welcome?

Is it needed?

Would it make a difference, Gregory? The most important question is it possible

NATO itself has fallen apart since the collapse of the Cold War in 1990,

1991.

The ability of the NATO nations to work

cohesively together is now dramatically reduced from say 1989.

The capabilities of the European Armed Forces individually,

although they may have been getting increased defense budgets is not great in

terms of coordination. You have to admit of course that Mark Ruta from the

Netherlands is not only a hawk but he represents a country which really

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