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The John Batchelor Show

PREVIEW: Colleague Joseph Sternberg of WSJ observes that the EU is unhappy with the US because now it must pay for its own defense. More later.

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

Society & Culture, Arts, News, Books

4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2025

⏱️ 2 minutes

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PREVIEW: Colleague Joseph Sternberg of WSJ observes that the EU is unhappy with the US because now it must pay for its own defense. More later.
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This is John Batchel. The Vice President, Mr. Vance, addressing the Munich Security Conference,

0:26.2

rattled everyone in the room different directions, but one of the things that certainly

0:31.2

bothers the European powers is that they're being asked to pay for their own defense.

0:42.3

After decades, eight decades, of the U.S. paying for their defense and for the population in the United States, the idea is sharing.

0:47.6

You pay for your defense, we'll pay for ours, and we'll work together when we must.

0:52.1

That would have been sensible eight decades ago, but nobody said it.

0:57.0

The United States dominated the world in building up a sophisticated national security apparatus,

1:02.6

and now the Germans need to match it. So to the French. So do the Italians. They don't have to

1:07.5

move in the same direction. They can decide to move separately. Just get it done.

1:13.0

A simple message from the vice president. And that upset everyone. Here's Joe Sternberg, back from

1:19.3

Germany, Wall Street Journal, commenting on the same incident and what it means. More of this later.

1:26.3

Yes. I mean, I think that they're very upset about that message,

1:29.4

and I think that they are also upset about the idea that they're getting frozen out of the

1:33.8

Ukraine peace talks to the extent that there are any peace talks potentially going on. But I think

1:40.2

that they shouldn't claim to be surprised about this, because I think that the, they shouldn't claim to be surprised about this because I think that the Trump

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