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Threats to say, taiwan, we have a long way to go to match our capabilities with our commitment. i don't see how we do this through europe, quite honestly. europe has virtually no meaningful military force to introduce in this part of the world and europe largely sees asia and particularly china through the eyes of economic and commercial ties. i think we're going to run into real problems trying to line the europeans up it work with us. losing my voice here fareed, sorry. >> no worries. anne-marie, what about richard point, particularly in light of merkel leaving after 16 years in germany. the...
Capacity to project any kind of military force without american help. and they don't seem that interested in having a kind of larger world role. they're largely internally eu focused. is it a fool's errand to try to get the europeans to play a larger, more active, strategic role? >> no. as i just said, the french after the united states have the largest naval experience in the south pacific. if we were going to make a deal with australia and britain, yes, i understand that we had better technology, but we should have included the french in thinking about the south pacific as a strategic arena ...
Dependable, maybe now is the time to press, explore what we can get away with. this is clearly an america that's totally focused domestically and has little interest in maintaining a large world role or even a medium-size world role for much longer. it feeds a narrative and that's what concerns me. one other thing, beyond the humanitarian nightmare, we have pakistan next door, they've provided a sanctuary to the taliban. but what's going to happen now is i think there's a decent chance that the taliban in afghanistan become a sanctuary to undermine pakistan. this doesn't stop here. i think thi...
That basically the costs of america's world role are far greater than the benefits. and it's as if he were running a business, it's as if he was only being looking at the cost side of the ledger r, he's never looking at the revenue side. >> you have any concern about the stability of nato? >> absolutely. comes out in the anoun nnymous . we've had more sustained fight with our allies than anybody. the president does a cost/benefit analysis. i'm a little concomfortabuncomf talking about it. but if you're someone like vladimir putin, why do you do what he's doing against a country, does he know f...