I welcome my colleague Jeff McCawson, Colonel Jeff McCawson, the United States Army retired artillerymen,

CBS News, visiting Professor Dickinson College, as well as the CEO of Diamond Six Leadership and Strategy.

We go to call upon the colonel's experience at NATO, headquartered at Brussels, and the question, the rhetorical question, but it will be turned into a revelation,

is NATO on life support? Jeff, a very good evening to you. I had a discouraging conversation with Berlin

to learn that Friedrich Merritt's forming a government that must lead, must lead the EU, must

lead NATO. It's the nature of Germany's industrial mites and rebuild after the war. Friedrich

Mertz is spending his time worrying about money that Olaf Schultz wants for the social welfare

programs. Good for him. But the whole point here is that Germany is going to money that Olaf Schultz wants for the social welfare program.

It's good for him.

But the whole point here is that Germany is going to revive defense spending

in order to match the expectation of what NATO needs going forward.

There's very little attention to that, and I'm told, I don't have the German,

I'm told that Friedrich Meritz,

who is imminently the prime minister to lead a coalition in the Bundestag, hardly speaks of

Ukraine at all. Now, that is not promising. I could look to France, but Mr. Macron is now

knotted up with the challenge by Rene Le Penz and

her national rally. Nothing to do with Ukraine whatsoever. It's all about tactics because the

government is very thinly held together in their parliament. The next parliamentary election is

imminent and the presidential election in 27.

So I look to the UK, not a member of EU, but it's a member of NATO.

I have learned over time that there are minimal arsenal details from the UK.

Don't look to them.

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