Crosstalk in the Atlantic Alliance im joined by my guest mark allman in oxford hes the director of the Crisis Research institute in london we have Jonathan Steele hes an International Affairs commentator also in london we have a real because he is founder of a consulting and Foreign Affairs analyst all right gentlemen crosslike rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate mark let me go to you 1st here and let me just read you 2 quotes here number one foreign minister lavrov played in munich saying quote change course before its too late and we have the new head of the European Unions Foreign Policy arm he he also says europe must develop quote appetite for power in the trump era theyre both hinting at the same thing in Different Directions here what does that tell you Better Change course before its too late whats that mean to you. I think certainly the tensions between russia. And the west in general are really probably tensions in russia in the
A low and welcome to crossfire for all Things Considered im Peter Lavelle the Atlantic Alliance the bedrock of the post world war 2 Global Security order is slowly but surely unraveling more and more often washington and brussels diverged on important Foreign Policy issues today europe has a choice to defend its interests or fade into oblivion. Crosstalk in the Atlantic Alliance im joined by my guest mark allman in oxford hes the director of the Crisis Research institute in london we have Jonathan Steele hes an International Affairs commentator also in london we have. He is founder of a consulting and Foreign Affairs analyst all right gentlemen crosslike rules. In fact that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate mark let me go to you 1st here let me just read you 2 quotes here of number one foreign minister lavrov played in munich saying quote change course speak for its too late and we have the new head of the European Unions Foreign Policy arm he he also says
France and so on for whom a russian threat doesnt really exist anymore but who are paying a price through sanctions and economic losses for the grand a strategy of the United States to keep russia in its box and so there is a tension about where youre going to go because if this situation of a new cold war between russia and america continues is your really benefiting from that you know if it isnt which europeans are going to make and yeah i mean just to decide to move in a slightly different direction marc makes a very good point i mean that the tensions are prior between the United States and russia and europe as usual finds itself in the middle with a mixture as marx pointed out here but that is not a proper way forward that is the that is paralysis and as i said in my interrupted introduction they have to start defending their interests or theyre really going to become irrelevant because we have the rise of china the closer relationship between moscow and beijing where is europe in
Between washington and the new. Low and welcome the cross for all things are considered im Peter Lavelle the Atlantic Alliance the bedrock of the post world war 2 Global Security order is slowly but surely unraveling more and more often washington and brussels diverged on important Foreign Policy issues today europe has a choice to defend its interests or fade into oblivion. Crosstalk in the Atlantic Alliance im joined by my guest mark allman in oxford hes the director of the Crisis Research institute in london we have Jonathan Steele hes an International Affairs commentator also in london we have a real because he is founder of a consulting and Foreign Affairs analyst all right gentlemen crosstalk. Rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate mark let me go to you 1st here let me just read you 2 quotes here of number one foreign minister lavrov in munich saying quote change course speak for its too late and we have the new head of the European Un
On important Foreign Policy issues today europe has a choice to defend its interests or fade into oblivion. Crosstalk in the Atlantic Alliance im joined by my guest mark allman in oxford hes the director of the Crisis Research institute in london we have Jonathan Steele hes an International Affairs commentator also in london we have a real because he is founder of a consulting and Foreign Affairs analyst all right gentlemen crosslike rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate mark let me go to you 1st here and let me just read you 2 quotes here number one of course before its too late and we have the new head of the European Unions Foreign Policy arm he he also says europe must develop quote appetite for power in the trump era theyre both hinting at the same thing in Different Directions here what does that tell you Better Change course before its too late whats that mean to you. I think certainly the tensions between russia and the west in gene