Russia’s Capability Raises Alarm

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00:00One of the things I'd like to start by talking to you about is a warning that came from Germany's top defense official, General Carsten Breuer,

00:07who warned of a possible Russian attack within four years.

00:11And he was talking about NATO countries.

00:14I was wondering how seriously you think NATO and the member states should take that sort of a timeline.

00:21Yeah, thank you, Tom, for having me with you and for such a thoughtful question.

00:25All throughout NATO Europe, the similar predictions or assessments are being talked about.

00:32And I used to run a military or a Ministry of Defense think tank in Estonia, and we had our annual conference a couple weeks ago.

00:38And there were several chiefs of defense and four-star generals and ministers of defense who unanimously were saying within five years,

00:47Russia will have the capability to attack European members of NATO.

00:52Now, that's not the same thing as an intention.

00:53That's the capability, which leads to then Europe wanting to scale up its defense capacity as quickly as possible.

01:01So capability, yeah, intention, that remains to be seen.