My leadership, the United Kingdom will always stand up for our interests, deter our enemies and defend our values. Now, as my enormous pleasure to introduce general stoltenberg, the nato secretary general. Jens, thank you for joining us today. Jens, thank you for joining us today. Over to you. Today. Over to you. Thanks so much, Prime Minister rishi, it is great to be here in poland together with you today. The United Kingdom is highly valued and staunch and essential nato ally, contributing greatly to our shared security in so many different ways. As you lead nato different ways. As you lead nato forces in estonia, british jets help guard the skies over our eastern flank. The royal navy helps keep critical sea lanes open. Helps keep critical sea lanes open. The United Kingdom is also open. The United Kingdom is also at the centre of the exercise. Steadfast defender currently underway and involving more than 16,000 British Military personnel. And we are today here personnel. And we are
Institute, this is one hour. [indiscernible] im honored to have with us to have with us the assistant secretary of the navy, the navy comptroller, Russell Rumbaugh. Weve been friends and colleagues for many years. He has worked in a variety of positions at dod, on the hill, and think tanks, and he most recently came into the department of the navy from aerospace corporation. Previously he had worked at the Simpson Center and other places here in d. C. , the Congressional Research service for many years, and he began his career as a u. S. Army infantry officer. You dont talk about that with the navy folks. Navy i will ask you a few things about the army budget and how much the navy took from them this year. [laughter] its a pleasure to have him here for this discussion. We will also be taking discussion from the audience in the room and online. So, when we turn to that, if you are online you can go ahead and start asking questions on the site where i get to read the questions off the ip
For two reasons, still the National Army is subject to the National Decision first of all, that is, it is not the decision of the alliance, they cannot prevent france from making decisions about the use of the army, but again, the lack of direct a no answer also suggests that such options are being considered, whether under the nato umbrella or without. Nato, but again, it is possible that National Countries are National Governments will be able to make such decisions independently. Another longsuffering issue is taurus missiles, yes. We will say that we have been waiting for a solution to this problem for months, unfortunately, it is not solved, for us, ukrainians, these missiles are, relatively speaking, necessary, needed, our defenders need them all the more, in this regard. Case, in your opinion, should we expect this, should we not expect it, is the position of olaf scholz today, it is so principled that, conditionally, by the end of his term, we should forget about taurus missile
A front row seat to democracy. Next, a discussion on the navys priorities and budget for the upcoming fiscal year with Navy Secretary for Financial Management. From the American Enterprise institute, this is an hour. Good morning. Thank you for joining us. I am honored to have here today for our discussion the assistant secretary of the navy, assistant secretary of the navy for Financial Management and comptroller, otherwise known as navy comptroller. Weve been friends and colleagues for many years. He most recently came into the department of the navy from the Aerospace Corporation and previously worked at another think tank here in d. C. He actually began his career as a u. S. Infantry officer. Maybe i will ask you a few things about the army budget and how much money it is a pleasure to have you here for this discussion. We will also be taking questions from the audience, both in the room and online. You can go ahead and start emailing and questions, i think there is a link on the s
Law, french law, and ukrainian law, which in principle today does not allow the placement of bases on the territory of Foreign Countries on the territory of ukraine, every time when we conducted training, we adopted a separate bill on joint training to allow nato ships, for example, to enter the port of odessa, and about nato, i have almost the same question. Gave to admiral bauer, who is the chairman of the nato military committee, and what is the chairman of the nato military committee, he is the second person after sto, not even the second person, it is parallel. Stoltenberg is a political leader, and baur is a military army leader who, in the event of hostilities, is responsible for all nato forces, ah, for the military component of nato forces. Uh at the meeting when he was coming to kyiv, i asked him what nato would do if france sent troops, decides to send troops to ukraine, will it block, will it help, will it do it, that is, nato will do it together with france and under the u