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PREVIEW: #NATO: Excerpt from a conversation with colleague Henry Soklski of NPEW asking can your defend Europe with or without US leadership and weaponry -- and how? More of this later today

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

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🗓️ 1 March 2024

⏱️ 3 minutes

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PREVIEW: #NATO: Excerpt from a conversation with colleague Henry Soklski of NPEW asking can your defend Europe with or without US leadership and weaponry -- and how? More of this later today

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This is John Bachelor speaking with Henry Sikalski, the Executive Director of the

0:37.8

Non-Proliferation Policy Education Center, about the threats by Mr. Putin about nuclear weapons and chemical weapons, the concerns about Germany being

0:46.8

invaded. The question of are there or are there not already NATO troops in Ukraine, Mr Schultz has slipped and commented that there are

0:57.7

British troops in Ukraine already.

1:01.0

All of this adds up to, is Europe ready to participate? It's Europe ready to lead in

1:07.0

the defense of Europe. Henry Sikalski has thoughts and they're not positive.

1:11.6

Here's Henry Sikalsky on Europe with or without

1:15.4

American leadership. What is to be done?

1:19.3

In a vacuum, Europe is a mess. There's a reason why American leadership unfortunately is still

1:27.1

needed. What they are doing is what they have done before.

1:33.0

When it looks as though the United States

1:36.0

might be reconsidering backing up its security pledges.

1:42.0

And, you know, this is, I think, a pretty direct result, not just of Putin, but of Dittley and

1:50.4

Doddling in Washington. They put the two together, they panic and it's not like they're

1:57.4

entirely wrong. It's just that none of this is going to lead to very much in the way of useful effort on the part of Europe.

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