US, British commanders show unity after Trump uncertainties

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00:00It's so hot here, I'd be half-mad if it wasn't for the sun.

00:29What I think you're seeing here is testament to 75 years of the world's most successful

00:47alliance.

00:48Like all alliances and all relationships, over time they have their ups and their downs.

00:55But I think a NATO that before Russia's invasion of Ukraine was 30 nations is now 32 nations

01:04and is, as you're here today to see, practising complex but essential deterrence missions

01:10across Europe, kind of tells its story there on how serious and how resolute we are as

01:15an alliance.

01:25We plan together, we fly together, we integrate in the aftereffects of discussing what it

01:41is we've done.

01:42Well, I think the example that we've set through Bomber Task Force in particular and our interoperability,

01:51the speed with which we can come together and plan and demonstrate capability, I think

01:57is a very strong thing regardless of the geopolitics of whatever decisions politicians make.

02:04And so the strength of that routine operation speaks for itself.

02:21Clearly a very different background from where we were three years ago.

02:51Obviously, I'm sure you've got the Eighth Air Force and the Royal Air Force, my own Air Force,

02:54obviously go back to the days of World War Two.

03:00We made this happen, but I think it's also very fortuitous.

03:05But in terms of the missions, there is the standing plan to keep them going, as I mentioned

03:12earlier, nine times already since the invasion of Ukraine.

03:16And as I said, they're essential for our own training and to make sure that we are, heaven

03:20forbid, but ready to go if necessary.

03:45But they also have to have these, yeah.