00:00NATO is a shrinking organization because it depends upon its members having a fear in order to spend.
00:10And right now, for the last five years, the fear has been the Russian Federation's war with Ukraine.
00:17As that war moves from the military component to the other components of the war,
00:24the taxpayers and voters within the European Union, the 27 members within the 32 members of NATO,
00:3223 of which are members of the European Union, the taxpayers and voters, younger generation,
00:38are going to say, why are we paying for something that doesn't yet exist?
00:44Older generations will remind them the peace dividend wasn't such a great idea in 1991 when the USSR went out
00:52of business.
00:54But these young people are going to be looking and saying, Putin's 72 years old.
00:59Trump is 80 years old. He's only got another year and a half.
01:03And why are we spending all this money on tanks and planes and boats rather than schools and hospitals and
01:13infrastructure?
01:13And I think that's going to be the challenge for Mark Ruta, who is an exceptional, gifted communicator, former prime
01:22minister in Netherlands.
01:23However, when he stands up in front of NATO defense manufacturers and uses the equivalence of a football match,
01:32we've got the team, we've got to do this and that.
01:34But it's just not a good look and I don't think it's sustainable.
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