European NATO members are finally increasing defense spending primarily because of Russia's 2014 and 2022 invasions of Ukraine rather than because of Trump's blunt threats, and using crude coercion to get results—rather than reasoned argument about the growing Russian threat—invites more of that destructive conduct in the future.

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Speaker

John Bolton

Evidence Quote

it's inviting more of that kind of conduct in the future when if we just sat down and said... we might have been able to get there without the without the sound and fury

Source

John Bolton Warns: The System Is Breaking Down. The World’s Out of Control And No One's in ChargeDecoding Geopolitics Podcast with Dominik Presl
Created: 6/18/2026, 1:57:40 PM

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