00:00Christian, do you think that this US troop withdrawal from Germany is just the start?
00:05Would you be surprised if you saw more troop withdrawals?
00:09And would that be a welcome or a risky development?
00:15Well, I see this as a way for Trump to actually teach him a lesson.
00:21If you don't listen to me, this is what I can do to you.
00:24And I think it's not how you build friendship and alliances.
00:27It's not how you build a strong military.
00:30And I know that these soldiers that have to move to the US, I guess, their families, they're going to
00:36be angry about this.
00:38So it's not just pawns that you can move around in the world.
00:41These are actually families.
00:42These are soldiers.
00:43These have kids in school.
00:45These are people.
00:46And they're going to be angry about this, I guess, if not all of them, many of them, because they
00:50enjoy what they're doing.
00:51And they think that they have European friends and allies in Europe.
00:54They're working every day together with them.
00:56And suddenly they move somewhere else.
00:58I think it is not a sign of the future.
01:02It's a sign of Donald Trump's very fast decision making.
01:06And it's not making Europe more stable.
01:10It's not making NATO more stable.
01:11It's making just a lot of erosion with the formula within NATO.
01:16But I don't think it's going to do the same thing in other places.
01:20It's just because I said earlier that the US has an interest in Europe also.
01:25They're pretending, like I'm saying from Norway's perspective, in the Arctic.
01:29They need to be there.
01:31And they're not there.
01:32If they cannot help us out, why should we invite them up there?
01:36So they have some other interests also in Europe that they should be very aware of, in addition to all
01:42the trade that they do with Europe.
01:45They need to be friends with Europe.
01:46They need friends.
01:47They don't have friends no longer.
01:48They'll have friends no longer.
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