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Donald Trump is right to say European NATO members should spend more on defense, David Lammy has suggested.
The shadow foreign secretary said European countries would increase their financial burden on NATO to thwart the Russian threat emanating from the Republican candidate who could secure a second term in office this November. He said people should “heed the signals” that they should. .
Earlier this year, Trump angered NATO members who did not meet the alliance’s 2% spending goal (which includes 13 members) by claiming they would urge Russia to “do whatever you want.” caused.
However, in an interview Le Grand ContinentMr Lamy suggested he agreed with previous US presidents, including Mr Trump, who have called on European countries to “spend more on their own security”.
The comments by the shadow foreign secretary, who has developed close relationships with members of Trump’s team, come in anticipation of a Labor government potentially having to deal with Mr Trump in the White House, as Sir Keir Starmer’s foreign policy Consistent with that goal, there is no difference between the two statistics on Labour’s defense spending. I I understand.
Starmer has promised to increase spending to 2.5% of GDP if Labor wins this year, but this falls short of Rishi Sunak’s 2030 target.
Mr Lamy was asked how a Labor government would work with other European NATO members to deal with President Trump’s move away from the alliance, especially in light of Ukraine’s setback in its war with Russia. Ta.
He said, “President Trump has a special way of communicating that gets attention. We need to pay attention to the signal, not the noise.”
“Every American president I’ve ever lived with has argued that Europeans must spend more money on their own security…
“It’s clear to me that President Trump, like his predecessor, wants a Europe that is better defended and more capable. That’s the core argument behind this rhetoric.”
“I have been in contact with various people close to President Trump, including Robert O’Brien’s former national security adviser and my friend Sen. J.D. Vance,” Ramey said. Both men continue to stress that this issue of burden sharing is essential.”
The shadow foreign secretary also said a decade ago that former president Barack Obama’s defense secretary, Chuck Hagel, said defense spending by European NATO members was “unsustainable” and that “there was a need to rebalance NATO’s burden-sharing and capabilities.” “Adjustment is an obligation, not a choice,” he said.
If Labor is elected later this year, Mr Starmer and Mr Lamy will seek a closer foreign policy and defense relationship with the EU without breaching the party’s “red line” on withdrawing from the EU. It will announce a proposed new UK-EU security agreement.
Lamy said that under any president, it is “inevitable that the U.S. government will shift towards the Indo-Pacific and away from Europe over the next decade” and that European countries will “work even harder and better together” to fight the threat. He said there was “no debate” that it should be done. Including from Russia.
as I It was revealed last week that the shadow foreign secretary will step up talks with members of the Trump campaign and senior Biden administration officials in the run-up to the elections in both the UK and the US.
Elbridge Colby, an ally of President Trump, said last week that Mr. Lamy was “Prime Minister David Cameron” after Mr. Lamy visited Washington last month and urged Republicans to support increased U.S. aid to Ukraine. “It’s far more preferable than anything else,” he praised.
Colby told Politico. power play In the podcast, Lamy said he had a “more compatible vision” with the Trump campaign, including a focus on national defense and Europe.
Starmer said. I Last month, he said he would work with Trump if both were elected this year.
But Labor leaders secretly reprimanded the Republican candidate at the Munich Security Conference in February after Trump made comments critical of Europe’s NATO allies.
He said Britain would “always stand up for our allies, even when other countries threaten us.”
Labor officials pointed out that at the same Munich conference, Lamy had vowed that a Labor government would ask European countries to share more of the burden of NATO defense costs.