00:00I mean, the elections in Washington will have a result whatever.
00:06But our responsibility in Europe is to strengthen the European angle, the European pillar of NATO.
00:11This is what we should have done earlier, from my opinion. I'm convinced about that.
00:16But we didn't. I always stress that the Baltics and the Scandinavian countries,
00:22they woke up in 2014 with the election of Crimea.
00:28We woke up too, Germany, Britain, France and other countries in Europe.
00:34But what we did was we pushed the snooze button and turned around.
00:39All the other countries stayed awake and they did what was necessary to do.
00:45And so we lost almost eight years. And we have now to speed up.
00:51And therefore it is, of course, of importance because we trust on the Euro-Atlantic Alliance
00:56and the Euro-Atlantic Solidarity and Friendship.
00:59But besides that we have to do more because in any way the US will shift their focus more to the Indo-Pacific for reasons we all know.
01:08So it is only a matter, a question of will they do much less in Europe because of that or only a little bit less.
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