00:21in my estimation secretary rubio is spot-on when he says that an alliance cannot be a one-way street
00:37i could let's do it step by step so um but with speed and if and the step now being
00:42taken is for
00:43this coalition of uh now 34 countries who uh gathered together at the military level last
00:50tuesday to start doing the detailed planning for what is where moose mission could be
00:55um i think that's step one if if if nato can help obviously nato is then is there there's no
01:01uh
01:01no reason not to uh to be to be helpful obviously we will uh if that's helpful but i think
01:07we have
01:07to do it step by step because also in nato that requires then an agreement between all the allies
01:12to do that and i think here the exact structure is less important than the speed here i would say
01:20at the speed over perfection and but again if if nato can play a role would be great president
01:26trump's commitment to progress refers more than a generation of stagnation and atrophy
01:33by reminding europe that values must be backed by hard power hard power provided not only by the united
01:42states but through the collective effort of countries who are part of the most successful military alliance
01:49ever built the president drove allies toward a historic decision at nato summit in the hake last
01:55summer to invest five percent of gdp into defense and this will help to ensure that the nato of the
02:04future is not an alliance in which allies are unhealthily dependent on the united states
02:12and in which the united states knows that it has capable partners who are ready willing and able
02:19to defend our freedom and security and allies are moving quickly to secure the budgets grow their
02:25armed forces and feel the capabilities we know we need but even with this progress it is clear we will
02:33need more let me be clear this alliance is not whistling past the graveyard as you would say in the
02:41united
02:41states allies allies allies recognize and i recognize we are in a period of profound change in the transatlantic
02:49alliance europe is assuming a greater and fairer share of the task of providing for its conventional
02:56defense and from that there will be no going back and nor should there be let's consider the most recent
03:04events when it came time to provide the logistical and other support the united states needed in iran
03:13some allies were a bit slow to say the least in fairness they were also a bit surprised
03:21to maintain the element of surprise for the initial strikes president trump opted not to inform allies ahead
03:28of time and i understand that but what i see when i look across europe today is allies providing a
03:35massive
03:36amount of support basing logistics and other measures to ensure the powerful u.s military succeeds in denying
03:45iran a nuclear weapon and degrading its capacity to export chaos nearly without exception allies are doing
03:53everything the united states is asking they have heard and are responding to president trump's requests
04:02the united kingdom united kingdom is leading a coalition of countries that are aligning
04:06the military the political and economic tools that will be required to ensure free passage through the
04:14strait of vormoos
04:23public its
04:25political leadership
04:25the united states as a man ě í of a foreign brigade
04:27obviously
04:27the reason the military is a lot of the military truck and voting because they both must we assume that
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