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19: Leo Varadkar: Ireland's Taoiseach on NATO, China, and Joe Biden

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The Importance of Ireland's Strategic and Security Interest in a Conflict

The Russia Ukraine conflict war changed your view or change you view in the need for an assessment of Ireland strategic and security interest. I think it's definitely caused Irish people in the Irish government to think about neutrality and think about security in a way we did in the past. We will do three things we're going to increase our own military spending particularly when it comes to things like radar cyber security not just traditional security. And we will become more involved in European defense and security were part of the PESCO program champagne by the way wants to take us out of that.

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