On 20 years old. Im from dublin island. I dont think europe in union to be preparing for a war. I think this would be mutually disruptive. My name is thomas, im 27 years old. Im from re go lap you. I think of course, your a should be preparing for war because we already have war on the european continent in ukraine. Yes or no. Are you afraid . War is coming to the you a few months after the russian full scale invasion of ukraine. I took the decision to put my studies in the u. K. A on hold and to move back to life for you to undergo some military training myself. Because i feel a personal judy to contribute to the security and resilience of my country. We in the baltic states, we recognize that the we border to authoritarian regimes, russian beller roost. And i wouldnt say that were scared, but were certainly menaced by the range of hybrids. Threats, you know, election interference attempts to destabilize our borders, Cyber Attacks and so on. I think your concerns are commendable. Im joining your own ministry. You know them with a view of defending your own country is to am. I believe personally deals and obviously it goes, website is walker must be at the hague. The war isnt the novel. And i think its kind of i think its almost my eve to think that a total victory con beauties on either side. And thats why it supports the ceasefire across the board. Well, i think i, im precise where youre coming from. I think that of course, this war has brought to unimaginable destruction and loss of life. But i think the sort of message of peace that youre bringing would not, in fact lead to peace, i think put in would use a ceasefire to basically re arm and return to work in maybe 2 or 3 or 5 years. But i think its also wrong on moral terms. We know what happens in the occupied territories. We know about the abduction of children raped alteration camps, ethnic cleansing. Yes or no. Should e u countries invest more in defense as i dont see why the most powerful nations in the world should invest more in defense. When other things are to be considered, i, im from building. I went to school where people were homeless, they lived in hotels, and when orleans joined, pasco, in 2017 defense spending increase, 5 volts, much 2 percent of g. P a peoples, their frozen death in the streets. Again, i think i, i am precise where youre coming from. Oh, maybe begin with a bit of like an anecdotal story from, from lat, be in the past week were announced plans that maybe we should finally build a proper football stadium for our National Team. And our National Team is terrible, but thats kind of beside the as i was beside the point. And so there were these debates happening that, oh, you know, a football stadium, its an investment of several tens of millions of bureaus. And honestly, one of the main counter points was that this is not a time for luxuries like football stadiums. Maybe we should be building a bomb shelters using these tens of millions. Of course, i would love for us to build this chinese stadium and go to games and go watch a lot for you lose to extension time. But these are not normal times. This is the time when we have more on the european continent and refusing to invest in defense while we have more an instability around our external borders. I think its a, its complete kind of Wishful Thinking and putting blinds on your eyes and hoping that the problem goes away so often goes to no offense as issue of citizenship tests to russian speaking people who comprise over 30 percent of the population. And thats being used indicate by the russians that stick to bus the left, the ends with, i dont think, you know, that facilitates the reduction intentions in any way as well. You know, we are seeing a kind of hardening of ideological lines between russia than europe. Which i dont think is inevitable, and i dont think that should be the case when we have a, someone like putting a war criminal that has made threats over europe. And when we have trump on the other side of the atlantic as a potential next president of the us, how do we defend peace in europe without the coordinated European Armed forces . Every European Defense capabilities. Taken the view away from solely the russian invasion of ukraine, which i think is a bomb unable. I think the crimes of the west and the crimes of European Countries, frankly, and took the pose entirely with irish sentiments. And i think further integration as i see it of, you know, the iris ministry, true cooperation with European Union into this global world order, i think is morally reprehensible just as it is to am aligned with russia. And thats why it fundamentally, i think ours people should protect their own utility regardless of what happens because i dont see russia as more im already deprived then you know, say germany here were sending arms to these ladies and who have committed themselves to what has been alleged across the board to be is honestly, i mean, realize not american movie does no good about in the world. I respectfully disagree with the most of what you said. I think to, to your question um brushes were against ukraine has actually further underscored the importance of all of europe kind of being integrated under the same uh, security umbrella. And i think an ideal example of this is the decision of sweden and finland, 2 countries with very capable armed forces, 2 countries with fighter jets ships, submarines, artillery, everything, their decision to look at the Security Landscape and say, you know what, we can not deal with these threats on our own, sweden abandoning 200 years plus of non alignment to joining the alliance. This is the ultimate sign that European Countries a need to need to work together. So thank you. My question. It goes to low, honorable irish holton do really believe that we should get in to Nuclear Black from a from north. Ok. We need to learn a safe about im sorry to be rude. Finance or question with the question. Do you think tighter Ministry Coordination . Am and ministry escalations are packed with them in any way to turn the dress of nuclear war. The british army trains 22000 ukrainian soldiers prior to 2022, which ceased just before the invasion. The political reality is the western am increases attention and russian increases the pension compliments one another across the board. Thats just, mike mentioned though, you used to live with us and my question of whether we should get into Black Mountain by Nuclear Power us. But what youll see as the alternative to what extent are you consumed by uh, the risks thats under sea cables. Reaching ireland or southern lights, serving island could be threatened by unfriendly forces. And do you consider the iron learn by itself could defend them . Or do you see a need for a cold, you need to do or appeal approved in order to defend what makes your economy work and your country . Its a good point on, its obviously a point of contention and honest as much discussion about us. I think hypotheticals arent worth considering when the war has reached us down a in ukraine, and we seem to return to the trench warfare for the 1st time of the confidence and over a century. There is a track of growth in interference with our case on the c cables, you know, Cyber Attacks and so on and so forth. This may be the never enough be them. So try to the, the, whats the, im trying for these fire. I mean, if you did you tell you all of your diplomacy on the basis of fear where youre going to get in 2030, 40 years time. Mutual. This trust just breeds this trust. Yes. Or no. Should be you provide more military support to ukraine. Just want to say, i dont think theyre crying inside of the, in this beautiful right to self defense. And thats why its kind of hard to, you know, m express these ideas. But it sounded like a roof and still with the russians have held sham elections in the dump us. Theyve stake their claim on frankly, theres no telling if we can force them to leave the volume can force them to live. And all that happens is corporations have made record profits while those of ukrainians have been sent to the slaughter. I think were just saying the young men and women to fine line to be written by machine guns as has proven the case a century ago. So i think we all in europe need to recognize that this war is not going away. We cannot treat this war, us some sort of emergency, some sort of, uh, you know, inconvenient situation thats going to be frozen in a way that can be localized somewhere away from our daily concerns. We see putting open, we uh, continuing to deny the which uh, the rights of ukraine to exist. Fulton has just stolen another president ial term. He plans to rule until his death potent is expanding. His repressions at home and fulton is transitioning russia to a war time economy. There is no scenario were putting, says, you know what, ive had enough. Send the boys home, your contention to rush it. Im few of them has spearheaded to work on the economy is correct. And if theyve proven on functionable and you know, the weapons industry is booming at the manufacturer is booming, extending the war by supplying more arms to crime, which invites an es 3 extension on the russians behalf of manufacturer. I think with sir a few of them kind of ironic lee and his goal to become dictator for life on to drug on the war. I think if a cease fire is held and the russians think of plans to adhere to one, then you know, go ahead have your forever war again. And what basis do you have that russians would have here to this cease fire . Where is the any kind of a shred of evidence for that when put in as openly saying that ukraine does not have the right to exist . Ukrainian language is a fake language. He is constantly. His propagandists are spouting all sorts of toxic propaganda that we in the baltic sea, you know, redrawing maps, threatening poland, threatening to go to go far beyond. So what is the backbone of this of the ceasefire plan . But what is the best phone of drawing on the war and hoping to repel the russians from where theyve already built themselves in this . Is there any plan the, the plan is uh, of course, to uh, to support ukraine and its, uh, and its a campaigns to regain its uh, its occupied territories. This war is absolutely still winnable. Absolute has and find the motive logic is. It makes good slogan or t shirts or whatever, but is there any concrete plan to actually win this war . Is it actually winnable . Wheres the, you know, im not a, im not a general, but ukrainians are telling us very clearly what sort of capabilities they need. What sort of support financial military they need . Again, i think its actually your kind of very defeatist, the rhetoric that is actually bringing us closer to world war 3 in 2022 ukrainians received from the americans weapons which exceeded the French Military budget of that year. Frankly, thats an insane amount of weaponry and nothing has come of it except slaughter. So where is the cup . What do you mean . Nothing has come of it. I mean of the russians left you are you denying the successes ukrainians have had in holding off and staving off . No, no, just holding off the russian invasion, but actually re conquering more than half of the territory is occupied by a big time crane. And so ive shown that basically you dont need, we dont need your pin countries to send troops, we dont need anything like that. Just give us the weapons and we will get the job done. So the payments are not asking you to sacrifice anything really do for indians are just asking for weapons. Do you think this will clear the russians have totally, and they will retrieve the like and the strong my us again, im not a military general, but i think uh, i think the war is certainly winnable. If we have, if we have the courage to give the ukrainians what they need, but you gotta wait on, sorry, it just let me finish quickly. We havent gone through several cycles of this kind of very uh, kind of one sided self of deterrence that your promoting. So if you remember at the beginning there were talks that no, no, no, we can send any weapons to ukraine like we can send java wins because if a western java and is used to shoot down the russian helicopter, then we will have world war 3, right . So then russians will and you knew or Something Like that. Then we went through the same thing with the artillery highmark. No, no, no, this is the red line when russians will well you, cuz then we went through this with tanks. Now were going through it with jets. Now were, were will have uh, the debates on the long range missiles, right . So every time we keep going through this kind of delayed self deterrence, that is only actually prolonging the war if weve given the ukrainians more capabilities, faster they would have had greater success by now say typically that to that, um the ceasefire is, is, is re send a negotiation starch, what kind of a signal would it send to russia and poor thing to dictate or as hes, you believe that there might be a way forwarding these or isnt there a re schedule that he sees it as a green card to act like he has doing also in other countries. Its a thinly veiled kind of an invocation of strong mind politics dont back down, dont look weak. If we consider, you know, our pride on our feelings ahead of, you know, the lives of millions, frankly. I think its, its, um, its a rational, as i think were talking frankly and, and no sound insane like the destruction of the human race. So i dont really care about what message, whatever sense. Thats just me, you know i, i think just, i think the scenario youre describing would send a devastating signal. I think its kind of like a chamberlain coming home after the munich conference, where a checklist of what parts of czechoslovakia are uh given away to hitler and hes waving this piece of paper saying, oh i have brought peace uh, brought peace to europe. So i think that if this sort of ceasefire agreement is reached, then it sends the signal to put in that she is a ambitions have been rewarded so that there is potential for more that the europeans are kind of, you know, locked into this tunnel vision of a of a seeking dialogue, even with a genocidal dictator. The nazi analogy is frankly, about faithful. Because its, i think im already reprehensible to take sort of, you know, the only war ever fall in Human History between object evil and good, and apply that to whats going to happen to know this is more inclined, but id be more inclined to believe this is more like world war one, where warring and period his powers are facing off against each other and to show a strength in order to reach out for the global economy. Aware i do have a question is whether it is possible to drive a Progressive Agenda and, and at the same time, not being able to fight against colonial an imperial power, which is right at an at olive border or at the border of some of our nations and whether it is possible to drive a Progressive Agenda in ukraine, which i wish this country very much. While this country will be divided and will be threatened by yet another round. If we are not doing something to project some power or deterrence phase of your russia, there will be obviously another round of imperial ambitions by russia. So dont you think that these 2 visions contradict to each other . Possibly what a realty is, if things continue the way theyve been going through with the no progressive reality in ukraine. And lensky has found certain opposition, thirtys, allegedly, pro russian book. You know, he doesnt the find the rules and on the green front, i suppose, you know, lots more destructive than war. The us military is the largest institutional polluter in this world. Most of the 90 of the ministry. And theyre giving, you know, millions upon millions by millions, by millions of weapons, and so on to the ukrainians. What about for usher . Committing echo side. Destroying down to the mining agricultural land, threatened example res. You Nuclear Power plant are putting literally all of europes security at risk. What about rushes this . Youre not wrong on there, which is all the way. How do you stuff that you dont prolong the war . What is your request really from policy capacities and media, how to even have these emotionally loaded prior to who might have conversation is between the ukrainians and the russians. I think that youll be mediated. You know, obviously i dont think its up to the European Union to decide what the terms of the ceasefire. Its not within our borders. I think in the next, the kind of political term uh to clear signals that need to be sent not just in rhetoric, but in practice. One is that europe is serious about uh, becoming a security and defense actor. And the 2nd signal is to ukraine, not just rhetoric and summits and hand checking, but clear actions that suggest that you are serious about including ukraine in the European Union. And this means you doing the work to reform, but you so that it is ready to accept new member states, also, moldova, and bosnia. And maybe maybe some other ones. But this is something that puts and really will understand if your opinions are serious about helping ukraine defend itself, but also serious about its place within europe. Yes or no. Would you risk your life for europe . Would i risk my life for europe . I answered this question with respect to my own country latvia, and i think its kind of foolish to treat these 2 as indivisible. Latvia is europe. Were not some sort of a marginal peripheral act or were not some sort of 2nd tier or a new member state. Uh we are, uh, youre a proper. So that would be my answer to the gear if, as a monolithic idea is another one and it is an, its an ideological concept for centuries, you know, if youre being slaughtered each other and thats one of the good things he was brought about is that its end of this, but the idea of dining for europe in the dining for anything, whatever context is its designed for the, for just for but now nationalism if you want to call it that are just for the id of, you know, the self defense without given any context as the water be dying for, i think is a little bit of a silly question. Im irish people, frankly, are the only europeans who have experienced colonialism and not the only european. So if not russian imperialism is quite different from violence was an extractive colony for years. And irish agriculture said, you know, the British Working class or in the industrial revolution. So on so far i, when i go to my grandfathers village in the west of ireland, i see, you know, houses, stuff were emptied during the finding of the 1800s. And i can personally, you know, we can talk about russian till the cows come home. I think this mark preston, humanitarian crises, in the world. I think europe has an idea of dying for europe. I think its, you know, away with the ferries, frankly, is, was saying on the look like my point is not the ukraine is the only crisis or war in the world. Absolutely not. But i think what youre saying is some sort of, you know, false, false choice. Europe, europe should be a superpower. Europe should be able to walk and chew gum. We do not have to choose between. Uh, you know, committing our resources to address one to minute, terry and issue and the other. I thought this was very irritating, but this is precisely the point tearing on the panel of used by both was a very important because this reflects the ambivalences and the tensions that we have in our voting population. That was actually super interesting. I think for people who are used to talk a lot its, i think youd challenge to shut up a bits and to be able to listen to, to completely oppose to you core uh from to very different reality as well. Was extremely interesting that its unusual for me to actually flip the script about politicians are listening carefully to the voters have to say, i certainly agreed with what the let the and young both have to say. What as i do, very shelby disagree with a lot of statements. The young irish photo made. Congratulations is fascinating. This is exactly one point to kill debates meet. So its very important that we continue the conversation around how courageous politicians could put on the agenda. New vision for how to make sure the citizens feel safe and theyre truly supported by europe regardless of what our International Global partners decide to do in the future. I think its some intriguing form that i think for us as petitions. So select petitions, this kind of form it to them hopes to shopping over on focus of the previous put forward by the irish. Both term the to the what road to on the path to a piece goes through giving the address. So what he wants is run as it this dangerous, and i would have liked to hear as well, a bit of a feminist perspective in these debates because in terms of defense, i think we tend to only think about the military and not only about everything which is around, i think, and besides a lot with the, the iris students that we was talking because i think im coming from the same perspective as he is at the beginning. But the ukrainian crisis was a switch in the way i thoughts about this kind of things. 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