The Bunker – News without the nonsense NATO on my watch: Is the military alliance fit for purpose?
Mar 22, 2023
31:01
NATO’s power has been thrown into sharp focus amid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. How does it operate – and what has it got right and wrong of late? Alex Andreou is joined by Mark Webber, a professor of international politics at the University of Birmingham who is co-authoring the book What’s Wrong with NATO and How to Fix It, to discuss the military alliance.
- “Whenever NATO acts it is acting as the aggregate of its members, that is its great strength.”
- “What NATO has done very well is it has strengthened its own defences.”
- “NATO enlargement is not a project that was anti-Russian, but where things failed is that project was not successful in bringing in Russia as a partner.”
- “The US is still the dominant power in Europe after the Cold War.”
- “There is moral clarity around the current support for Ukraine – but that longer thought is important.”
Presented by Alex Andreou. Assistant Producer: Kasia Tomasiewicz. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Audio production: … Lead Producer: Jacob Jarvis. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production
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