00:00One more extreme will be to see how best collectively we can prevent the Russians and the Chinese.
00:05Getting more access to the Arctic region, becoming also military more.
00:10Of a adversary there, how to prevent that, also from them gaining access.
00:15Access to the economy here and there, and that's one worst.
00:17My relationship with the president, hey listen.
00:20If somebody is doing good stuff, and President Trump is doing a lot of good stuff, I believe, I know.
00:25I'm irritating a lot of you again, but I think so.
00:27Because, as I said also in Davos, the two...
00:30...reached by all NATO countries now at the end of 20...
00:35...25 would never, ever, ever have happened without Trump.
00:38Do you really think that Spain...
00:40...and Italy and Belgium and Canada would have decided to move from 1.5...
00:45...5 to 2 percent?
00:46Italy spending 10 billion more now on defense at the beginning of the year without President Trump?
00:50No way!
00:51It would not have happened.
00:52And do you really think that in The Hague we would have come to the 5 percent?
00:55...commitment without President Trump?
00:57No way!
00:58So when President Trump is doing good stuff...
01:00He will praise him, and I don't mind him publishing text messages.
01:04And...
01:05If anyone thinks here, again, that the European Union or Europe as a whole can defend itself without...
01:10...the US, keep on dreaming.
01:12You can't.
01:13We can't.
01:13We need each other.
01:15And why do we need each other?
01:16I tell you.
01:17First of all, because also the US needs NATO.
01:19For the...
01:20For the US to stay safe, and by the way, Arctic region is evidence here, they need...
01:25...the secure Arctic, they need to secure your Atlantic, and they also need to secure Europe.
01:28So the US has...
01:30...every interest in NATO as much as Canada and the European NATO NATO allies.
01:35But for Europe, if you really want to go out alone, and those who you were pleading for that, forget...
01:40...that you can never get there with 5%.
01:41It will be 10%.
01:42You have to build up your own nuclear capabilities.
01:45That costs billions and billions of euros.
01:48You will lose them in that scenario.
01:50You would lose the ultimate guarantor of our freedom, which is the US nuclear umbrella.
01:55So, hey, good luck.
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