"Preview: General Blaine Holt, USAF (ret) presents the assumptions for the non-American persons during his time in Brussels. More later."
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
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🗓️ 5 March 2025
⏱️ 1 minutes
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1914 BRUSSELS
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| 0:00.0 | This is John Batchel, a conversation with General Blaine Holt, the United States Air Force, retired, |
| 0:04.9 | about his time in NATO when he worked there for the Air Force, asking him, |
| 0:10.5 | did the non-American personnel at NATO presume that America would be there forever in the same level of commitment? |
| 0:18.5 | In other words, all the guns all the time. |
| 0:21.4 | The answer is helpful. |
| 0:23.5 | Here's Blainehold on the assumption of non-American personnel at NATO for the time he worked there. |
| 0:30.7 | More later. |
| 0:31.9 | It is. |
| 0:33.0 | They have taken us for granted and they take the money for granted and they view our complaints about their lack of resources as just mild storms that come and go and ebb and flow. |
| 0:45.6 | I think they're about to learn some tough lessons in diplomacy here very soon. |
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