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Toward nato that last year they had to pass a law with bipartisan support stating that is u.s. policy to remain a member of nato prohibiting funds to be used to withdraw from the alliance so little punk didn t do they have in their president s commitment to nato her a i saw that as a great expression in washington of bipartisan support. art for nato and i saw it when we were there 10 days ago for the 70th anniversary nato is well supported across both sides of the aisle that s a great thing why are you going to i think and not by the president well i don t know about that because you know actions speak louder than words since the president has come into office the united states is spending $40000000000.00 more on the european reassurance initiative putting more cup capability and capacity into eastern europe to help in our deterrence and defense tests against russia so. i see the reality and this is at the same time as senior administration officials ....
Understand where our weaknesses lie and what we have to do better i was present this fall when we had our big trident juncture exercise which was not a computer exercise it was a big combined arms exercise in norway and it showed that it had been a long time since the alliance had reinforced across the north atlantic there were problems that emerged in the battle for bor well we saw the end of the soviet union and everyone decided and it was a good thing the last tank of the united states left europe in 2013 we saw that as a good thing but then after 2014 and the aggression against crimea the seizure of crimea the destabilization of the donbass we had to think again about deterrence and defense that must be the agency must in there because last month give you an example a senior research at the center for a new america s security david out monica you probably know i know he said other graphically that when the simulations were run against russia and china america get ....
Country across the alliance that they need to spend what it is in their interests to spend and that is on adequate sufficient capability and capacity they need to get rid of obsolescent equipment they need to modernize they need to pay to train their troops they need to do what is in their interest for their defense and that s the most important thing this is all true of this country. the important thing and you would think that would be valued a little more in an alliance a military alliance which might take 29 countries to war sometime particularly when the commander in chief of the largest force says many country is in nato oh us a tremendous amount of money for many years back that simply is not true if we can t even acknowledge that then nato is seriously trouble isn t it i think we have perhaps different views of what the truth is the truth to me is when the allies are acquiring real capability and capacity to contribute to our mutual defense well on ....
To the alliance yes so it s not the one way street that donald trump likes to claim it is europe contributes enormously to america s own war fighting capabilities doesn t it providing bases transport systems that allow it to project force in other regions where it wouldn t be able to without those nato facilities but that again is never ignore. and you never stand up for your. what of course we stand up for europe because europe is always out trumps false words to stay on the record well i think we have been clear about is my amends are clear restaurant telling really doesn t in telling it like it is. in the time we have left i d like to talk to you about the values of this alliance intimately in native s relations with the middle eastern gulf countries you have been conducting dialogues with them for many years now it turns out for providing assistance as to participating countries in the areas of security institution building civil military relations this is ....
Bahrain for instance their continued use of civilian and military courts to convict and imprison peaceful dissenters who are from the usa which is accused of maintaining a sustained assault on freedom of expression association i ask because they re frequently here they frequently visit nato headquarters there wined and dined presumably but you don t ask any of these unpleasant questions while you re. if i called so and the organization that purports to have. a lot about what takes place for tell me i m wrong for one thing i m wrong that wining and dining is rather rare and how we interact with our partners but so much on tact what in fact does happen is that we portray the core values around which this alliance is built and everything we do with in a day in day out basis is meant to build build the recognition and the acceptance of those values in a kind of organic way so of course the discussion can take account of everything that is happening day in day out in those countries but it ....