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NATO's secretary general on the US role in the strategic alliance - YouTube
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joining me now is jens stoltenberg he's
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the Secretary General of NATO mr.
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secretary-general thanks for being with
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us today thank you for having I want to
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talk about NATO and spending in all of
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that but first of all another pressing
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issue Venezuela and it's one that a lot
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of NATO members are involved in France
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Spain Germany the UK pressuring Maduro
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to hold elections in seven days or they
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will recognize one Guido as the
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legitimate leader of Venezuela Maduro
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sort of laughing at the idea this
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situation in Venezuela how tenuous do
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you think it is and could it devolve
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into civil war it's a very serious
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situation and many NATO allies are
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trying to help to find a solution but I
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think the most important thing now is to
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avoid a civil war avoid violence is as
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is going to beYOU stand there for NATO
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allies support all suffer to try to find
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a negotiated solution recently here in
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Washington DC the House voted
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overwhelmingly on a measure that would
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require congressional approval for the
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president to pull out of NATO because
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the president has threatened that he
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will pull out of NATO if other NATO
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nations don't live up to their financial
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commitment he has since said I'm a
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hundred percent behind NATO do you
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really have any concerns that president
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Trump would pull the United States out
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of the Alliance the president Trump has
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been very clear he is committed to NATO
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he stated that clearly just a few days
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ago and it is also at the NATO summit in
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July but at the same time he has clearly
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stated that NATO allies need to invest
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more and therefore at the summit in July
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last year we agreed to do more to step
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up and now we see the results by the end
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of next year NATO allies will add
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hundred one hundred billion extra US
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dollars for a defense so we see some
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real money and some real results and we
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see that a clear message from President
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Trump is having an impact NATO allies
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have heard the president loud and clear
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and our NATO allies are stepping up so
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this is good news meaning that we
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actually see more fair burden-sharing
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so that's interesting that you say that
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the NATO allies have heard the message
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and it's a good thing because President
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Trump gets
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criticized here in the United States and
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abroad for being hostile to NATO for
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putting too much pressure on them to
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live up to their financial commitments
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so from from your perspective what he's
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saying good thing or bad thing there is
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no doubt that he's very clear message is
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having an impact the message on the
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summit last summer was very clear with
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all the leaders sitting around the table
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and the message was was at the US
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President Trump is committed to NATO but
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we need fair burden-sharing right so are
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you happy with what you say I mean did
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did NATO nations the data was an
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organization need a kick in the pants
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I'm happy with the fact that he has
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helped us to now move on the question of
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burden sharing within the Alliance and
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this is important for European allies
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for a strong NATO is good for Europe but
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it's also good for the United States we
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have to remember that the only time we
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have invoked optical fiber we collected
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defense clause was oft an attack on the
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United States and hundreds of thousands
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of Canadian European soldiers have
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fought shoulder to shoulder with a US
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soldiers in Afghanistan we have worked
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together with us in defeating the Isis
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in Iraq in Syria so it's a great
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advantage for the United States to have
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28 allies Russia doesn't have that China
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doesn't have that but us as allies and
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friends you mentioned Russia and one of
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the knocks on President Trump is what he
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says about President Putin and his
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criticisms of NATO is is giving Putin a
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way to try to create divisions within
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NATO listen to what congressman eliot
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Engel of New York said last week
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today NATO plays a critical role in
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keeping an increasingly aggressive
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Russia in check and that's one of the
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reasons splintering the nato alliance is
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one of Vladimir Putin's top goals and
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that's why it's so disturbing yet
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troubling to see the United States
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sending mixed signals about our
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commitment to the alliance or treating
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it as a burden Nancy Pelosi the new
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Speaker of the House went so far as to
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tweet on Friday night why has the Trump
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administration continued to discuss
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pulling the u.s. out of NATO which would
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be a massive victory for Putin that
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could be connected to other issues
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regarding the president and Putin but
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what President Trump is saying about
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NATO and the way he is saying it is he
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giving an advantage to Putin here what
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he is doing is to help us adapt the
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alliance which we need because we live
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in a more unpredictable world with a
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more assertive Russia using violence or
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force against the neighbor Ukraine and
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therefore NATO has to adapt partly by
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increasing the redness of forces we are
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doing that partly by stepping up our
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fight against terrorism we are doing
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that with a new training mission in your
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art Iraq but also partly by investing
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more and you have to remember that the
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increase we now see in defense spending
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by European NATO allies comes off of the
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years of decline so before they were
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cutting billions now they're actually
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adding billions so you're not concerned
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that he's helping Putin splinter NATO
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like so many of his critics are what I
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see is that actually NATO is united
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because we are able to adapt to deliver
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North America and Europe aren't doing
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more together now than before we have
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more US troops in Europe and more
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exercises so we welcome that but you're
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also welcome to the fact that European
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allies are stepping up and this is a
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clear message to Russia and I think they
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didn't see that in your mind mr.
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secretary-general what is what is the
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greater threat to NATO is it that Russia
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may move into the Baltic States or is it
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what's happening in the Black Sea in the
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Balkan area the challenge for NATO is
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that we are faced with many different
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threats at the same time Russia
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using violence against neighbors but
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also - ISIL in the south and then cyber
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proliferation of nuclear weapons so
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therefore we are now in the midst of the
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biggest reinforcement of NATO since the
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end of the Cold War there is real
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concerns in some circles that Vladimir
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Putin may make a play in a little part
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of Estonia called
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narva if he were to do that Estonia is a
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NATO member would that invoke Article
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five first of all we don't see any
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imminent threat against any NATO ally
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and that includes also Estonia a second
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the main reason why we have NATO is to
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prevent the conflict is to prevent war
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because as long as all NATO allies make
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it clear that an attack on one Ally will
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trigger a response from the whole
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alliance then no adversary we try to be
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aggressive against NATO because they
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know that we are by far the strongest
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alliance in the world half of the
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world's economic might and half the
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world's economy turmoil it's really
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Natan so as long as we stand together we
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prevent conflict mr. secretary-general
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thanks for being with us we'll see you
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next December in Brussels yes all right
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