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Talking the Atlantic Alliance im joined by my guest luke prevail in brussels hes an independent journalist in paris we have emmanuelle gave she is a french lawyer and in oxford we cross to mark owen he is the director of the Crisis Research institute or across the uk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate it lets go to our guest in paris many well you have president mccrone just recently said that nato is brain dead how do you reflect upon that because a nato summit is coming up next week and its been shortened to 2 days because a lot of people worried that. Donald trump will start some kind of Dumpster Fire as he tends to do when it comes to nato so how is the Nato Alliance stand right now because you have Jeremy Corbyn and going into election mode doubting the alliance the necessity here so i mean is mccrone right is nato brain dead go ahead. Well to be honest i am afraid that this time i find myself on the same page as mr micawber just so
Come back in the 2nd part on what is the real combat today its not communism anymore well know what the civilization issue is and obviously nato is not the one up for it so thats my point of view on that ok i would say with a lot of market in oxford but i would make the argument that all 27 from the United States being the 28 member of nato their sovereignty is compromised as well and if you look at Public Opinion polls its been pretty. Trending is there do you know more and more people in western europe in the United States have doubts about you know having a collective Security Treaty Organization for a countries that are so far away and what france and the u. K. In the United States want to get into a military conflict over you know a country like. Stonier i mean is that something people are interested in poll say people arent go ahead mark. Well i think this is always the problem with a Large Alliance that you find that the fringe areas the border areas are remote from centers of P
Isolation full community. Are you going the right way or are you being led. By. What is true what is faith. In the world corrupted you need to descend. To join us in the depths. Or a maybe in the shallows. Hello and welcome the cross talk were all Things Considered im Peter Lavelle the nato military alliance is a relic from the cold war back then it was relevant. And even necessary today it is an alliance in search of a mission that search has almost completely and cayle eastern expansion towards russia but a lingering question remains is the average american and western european interested in a war over the sovereignty of dystonia and montenegro. Talking the Atlantic Alliance im joined by my guest luke prevail in brussels hes an independent journalist in paris we have emmanuelle gave she is a french lawyer and in oxford we cross to mark owen he is the director of the Crisis Research institute or across the uk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always app
Do you reflect upon that because a nato summit is coming up next week and its been shortened to 2 days because a lot of people worried that. Donald trump will start some kind of Dumpster Fire as he tends to do when it comes to nato so how is the Nato Alliance stand right now because you have Jeremy Corbyn and going into election mode doubting the alliance the necessity here so i mean is mccrone right is nato brain dead go ahead. Well to be honest i am afraid that this time i find myself on the same page as mr my core which is something its something unusual for me and stopped going for me right time twice a day its but what we have to look at is that mr mccloy saying it is a brand this is true but why because what he wants in bottom line is to make an alliance with germany and to sell our french army to the german that has been agenda since the beginning their big idea is to think europe and to kind of congregate everyone in this type of imperial europe they have as an idea a kind of n