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PREVIIEW: #EU: #NATO: Conversation with colleague Joseph Sternberg of the WSJ, based in London, of the controversy between the US and European powers to meet the 2% contribution to collective defense that has been promised this past decade -- and the sugg

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

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🗓️ 27 February 2024

⏱️ 3 minutes

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PREVIIEW: #EU: #NATO: Conversation with colleague Joseph Sternberg of the WSJ, based in London, of the controversy between the US and European powers to meet the 2% contribution to collective defense that has been promised this past decade -- and the suggestion that the US listen to Europe's positive and engaged response to the Washington accusations of freeridership. More later today.

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This is John Bachelor, speaking with my colleague Joseph Sternberg at the editorial page of the Wall Street Journal.

0:36.0

He's in London, writes political economics, about the contest in the EU and in NATO with the United States about contributions to the

0:47.2

defense industry to build up the arms and the weaponry and the emerges over these last years I learned from Joe but most importantly Europe is

1:05.0

playing catch-up and it's devoting its attention its meetings to providing what it

1:11.9

has not so far, a common defense.

1:15.0

Joe emphasizes in this passage that the US needs to listen to what Europe is saying,

1:21.0

needs to listen to the agreement that the shortfall is not

1:27.2

acceptable. Is Joseph Sternberg, Wall Street Journal, commenting on Europe listening to Washington, especially the voice of former President Donald Trump.

1:39.0

I think that there is a recognition that there is a real problem developing in Washington

1:43.5

around some of these issues and remember that the latest freak out over the past

1:47.8

couple of weeks was prompted by candidate Donald Trump saying essentially that, you know, he would let Russia have any NATO member that wasn't meeting that 2% spending commitment.

2:02.0

And so I think that there's an awareness that they need. spending commitment.

2:02.7

And so I think that there's an awareness that they need to catch up, but I think that there needs to be an

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