Professor: Europe must boost security efforts

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00:00So I want to talk to you about Europe getting involved and filling that gap.

00:04Keir Starmer and Emmanuel Macron will be holding a summit in London on Ukraine next week

00:10since the US-led talks have pretty much stalled.

00:14Are European allies feeling more pressure to step up and help?

00:19Obviously, we saw the NATO defence spending.

00:23That's now gone up to 5%.

00:25But are these just talks about talks or is anything concrete actually happening from the European Union and NATO?

00:33We haven't seen much action yet, but I think they're going to need to do so.

00:38Again, they were depending mostly on US support and financing the war to a certain extent.

00:46But now that the gap is going to exist, they're going to have to step up.

00:50It is in their backyard.

00:51The European Union is going to be challenged if for some reason Ukraine loses this war,

01:00because then Putin will go beyond, will go into other European countries,

01:05some that may be part of the European Union, certainly NATO members.

01:10Poland is certainly a target and on the list.

01:14Therefore, there's a list, there's more at risk for Europe today than there is for the US.

01:22And with the America First agenda of the United States,

01:25this is going to be on Europe to move up and do that.

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