UK Foreign minister: Europe's future security is on a knife-edge

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Europe’s security "is on a knife-edge," and President-elect Donald Trump is correct in asserting that NATO member nations must increase military spending, Britain’s Foreign Secretary David Lammy said on Thursday.  "The post-Cold War peace is well and truly over," Lammy stated.  "Donald Trump and JD Vance are simply right when they say that Europe needs to do more to defend its own continent," Lammy remarked during a speech in London, outlining the center-left Labour government’s foreign policy approach, which he described as "progressive realism."  #uk #security #coldwar #russia

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00:00Donald Trump and J.D. Vance are simply right when they say that Europe needs to

00:07do more to defend its own continent. It's myopia to pretend otherwise with Russia

00:14on the march. So this government will lay out a clear pathway to reaching 2.5

00:20percent of our GDP on defence. We have to accept that there is no going back. We

00:28must stop the 1990s clouding our vision. The post-Cold War peace is well and

00:40truly over. This is a changed strategic environment. I've occasionally asked on

00:47my travels here and of course on the doorstep around the country, when will

00:55the Kremlin threat, this upheaval that we're experiencing, end? When will things

01:01get back to normal? My answer is that they will not.

01:05Europe's future security is on a knife edge.

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