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Oct 1, 2026
Michael ClarkeHOST
It's pretty good already, but it would be better, and you could, you could implement it faster.
Michael ClarkeHOST
The whole point about the JEF is that you wouldn't need to refer to the North Atlantic Council if you wanted to act jointly.
Kate GerbeauHOST
Mm.
Michael ClarkeHOST
So say there were a crisis over, let's say we, uh, intercept shadow fleet ships, and the Russians create a, a North Atlantic crisis defending their shadow fleet ships.
Michael ClarkeHOST
You wouldn't want that to go to the North Atlantic Council because it would take too long to get a decision.
Michael ClarkeHOST
Maybe you just have to say, "Look, bilaterally, those of us who care about this, let's move in on the area."
Kate GerbeauHOST
Mm.
William CooperHOST
Nevertheless, this arrangement gravely undermines the constitutional mechanisms designed to protect our liberties and national sovereignty.
William CooperHOST
In my remarks to the House of Representatives during the March 11th debate, I reminded my colleagues that nothing in the laws of the Constitution suggests that a determination by the United Nations Security Council or by the North Atlantic Council, NATO's governing political body, is a substitute for a congressional declaration of war.
William CooperHOST
Furthermore, by making war on a sovereign nation, NATO acted in violation of both its own charter and that of the United Nations.
William CooperHOST
The North Atlantic Treaty states that NATO will, quote, refrain in its international relations from the threat or use of force in any manner inconsistent with the purposes of the United Nations, end quote.
Ash BhardwajGUEST
There was the attack on the British bases in Cyprus by the Iranians earlier on in the year, and there wasn't really a clear system of how to deal with that.
Ash BhardwajGUEST
So the European Security Council is supposed to act a bit like the North Atlantic Council does for NATO.
Ash BhardwajGUEST
It's a place for the defence leaders in particular, but also the national leaders of nations In Europe, countries like Cyprus, which are not part of NATO, and then it will also bring in countries outside the EU.
Ash BhardwajGUEST
So Ukraine will be a part of it.
Matthew KlimowGUEST
Our first trip was to, um, Brussels.
Matthew KlimowGUEST
When she was a secretary, she was going to give her first intervention speech at the North Atlantic Council to NATO.
Matthew KlimowGUEST
And, um, my job, Jack, was to, um, uh, review her speech for any military equities and make sure that everything was aligned.
Matthew KlimowGUEST
Before the trip, uh, this is again when the Balkan War was, was-
Rob BauerGUEST
reported by the Americans.
Rob BauerGUEST
And it was literally reported to the North Atlantic Council.
Rob BauerGUEST
I was the only military man at the table in all these political meetings.
Rob BauerGUEST
And The reports were clear.
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Rob BauerGUEST
So that was a big change that was done in the timeframe 2018-2022. the troops were in place and as a result on the morning of the 24th after the full-fledged invasion started after having listened four months to this nato intelligence picture that was built up and everybody basically agreed to it that when it happened the nations that couldn't believe it of course had their oh f moment and um and had to you know say I was wrong.
Rob BauerGUEST
They all admitted that immediately, of course.
Rob BauerGUEST
And within an hour, there was an agreement in the North Atlantic Council to take measures.
Rob BauerGUEST
One was to move from 4,000 military forces under the Supreme Allied Commander of Europe to 40,000. and to have more airplanes in the air, fighter aircraft and maritime forces at sea.
Jim TownsendPANELIST
so i was at i was at nato uh for this and i was there uh of course when article 5 was invoked uh it was uh So the attack happened in the afternoon our time, and the place shut down.
Jim TownsendPANELIST
The U.S. mission, of course, which is where I was, we stayed put because they called for an emergency meeting of the North Atlantic Council, the NAC, late that night.
Jim TownsendPANELIST
Nick Burns was the ambassador, and we stayed to help him write a speech.
Jim TownsendPANELIST
Our communications were cut off to Washington because Belgicom, the telephone system there, became overwhelmed for some reason.
Dominic NichollsHOST
And it is worth talking briefly about Article 4.
Dominic NichollsHOST
So Article 4 of NATO's founding treaty says that members can bring any issue of concern, especially related to the security of a member country, to the table for a discussion within the North Atlantic Council.
Dominic NichollsHOST
So Article 4 is a chat.
Alex NicholGUEST
And that's happened, uh, even this year.
Dominic NichollsHOST
Article 4 is only a chat.
Dominic NichollsHOST
If they then decide to invoke Article 5, they can.
Dominic NichollsHOST
The-- and when I say they, this is the North Atlantic Council.
Dominic NichollsHOST
This is the con- decision-making body of NATO.
Jiang XueqinHOST
And this is where it gets very precise.
Jiang XueqinHOST
On the same day as the wreck of Moscow trip, the exact same day, August 27th, Albert Colby, the Undersecretary of Defense for Policy, stood before the North Atlantic Council in Brussels and said the following.
Jiang XueqinHOST
NATO must change to survive.
Jiang XueqinHOST
Europe, as a wealthy continent, must take primary responsibility for conventional defense and for sustaining military support to Ukraine.
Ulrike GuérotGUEST
He is deputy for the CDU.
Ulrike GuérotGUEST
And he, the day it happened, basically called for a gathering of NATO Council under Article 4.
Ulrike GuérotGUEST
You know that NATO is one country's attack, everybody's attack, common defense.
Ulrike GuérotGUEST
And he wanted to have the NATO Council meeting to say Germany is under attack, so everybody's attack and declench Article 4 measures.
Ulrike GuérotGUEST
Luckily enough, this has not been pursued.
Ulrike GuérotGUEST
Interesting, yeah.
Otto SvendsenGUEST
But with that, let's move on to a similarly dramatic development in continental Europe, in Brussels to be specific.
Otto SvendsenGUEST
Because last week, Undersecretary of Defense Elbridge Colby visited NATO headquarters, meeting with Secretary General Rutte and briefing the North Atlantic Council.
Otto SvendsenGUEST
His message was basically that Europe must take primary responsibility for its own conventional defense, a line that has been delivered by several Trump officials.
Otto SvendsenGUEST
And this includes continuing support for Ukraine.