A positive scenario is you have really a Europeanised NATO where the Europeans are providing 60% of the defence and deterrence capability,
It's an ambitious plan. It's clearly just putting on paper what he thinks they would need in order to win. I'm not sure that it's very realistic he's going to get it. He's not going to get it from Biden. I don't think that's going to happen,
I think we're looking at one maybe two years of solid support, but with an eye to finding an exit strategy,
Ukraine will need pretty strong security guarantees from the NATO's partners, be it in the form of membership or just in the form of bilateral security guarantees. Well, for that to work, these allies have to be credible security givers and they're the Europeans that have a lot of work to do,
There are two scenarios. The optimistic kind of French scenario is that finally everyone will agree with France that Europe can't rely on the US forever and therefore need to establish strategic autonomy. And that would also mean less reliance on US systems because you need also political support sometimes to use some of these weapon systems,
The US simply doesn't have the capacity to stay focused on Europe to the extent that it has,
Separately, they're all buying a decent amount of things or producing a decent amount of material,
The bottom line for the United States and for President Joe Biden is that we want to put Ukraine in a position of strength
President Biden will be happy to be able to thank Chancellor Scholz for the incredible partnership that they've had over these last three and a half years
Germany and the United States are the biggest supporters of Ukraine in defence of its sovereignty and integrity and its democracy. And we will continue to be so,
We will not accept Iran attacking Israel with missiles,
The situation on the battlefield in Ukraine, the trajectory of the war, how allies can best support Ukraine will be a subject of conversation,
Both of them are [also] dealing with the issues of borders and border controls,
He has been in politics since 1972 and was clearly shaped in its early days, in the foreign policy realm at least, by the experience of the Cold War and Germany being the centerpiece of that conflict,
Obama was very limited in terms of his foreign policy knowledge,
I think that's a fair assessment,