00:00I mean, there have been a few sparks, haven't there, diplomatically between Europe and that includes the United Kingdom when
00:06we talk about the continent and and the United States.
00:09And at Munich this year, the U.S. Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, did sound a little bit warmer in
00:14his address than the vice president, J.D. Vance, did last year.
00:18Do you think relations between the U.S. and Brussels or in Europe generally are recovering?
00:23Are they are they sort of heading back towards sort of warming up?
00:27So I like to think they're more level setting, which is that for years, whether it's NATO as a whole
00:34or the EU, when it comes to both trade and our military arrangements, I think have taken advantage of the
00:42United States.
00:43On trade, there's a massive imbalance as far as how we are permitted to go into those markets versus how
00:51the Europeans at large have access to the U.S. market.
00:54Conversely, when you look at NATO in terms of the percentage that most NATO countries are paying as a percentage
01:00of their GDP to fulfill their NATO requirement, it fell short.
01:04I think what both vice president Vance and then to some degree Marco Rubio have done is to remind the
01:09Europeans that, you know, you can still be friends about sort of imbalances.
01:17Ones of the United States.
01:18Ones of
01:18You
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