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🧵It’s fair to say that @NATO’s military leaders have provided our political leadership with the best military advice on how to implement the DDA concept. It’s now up to politicians to step up and make it happen. What happens in Vilnius will define Transatlantic security. 1/5
This is a moment in history where we either invest what’s needed now, or we will be required to pay orders of magnitude more later when the security environment has deteriorated even more. It’s not just about strategic myopia manifest in some @NATO countries or disbelief. 2/5
It’s about the inability (unwillingness?) to recognize how radically the world has changed. For 30 years democracies have been fed bromides about the “peace dividend,” the “end of history,” “globalization” and “complex interdependence.” Our societies have become disarmed. 3/5
This disarmament is not only about insufficient stockpiles & armies not ready for what’s already happening in #Ukraine, and what may become a wider conflict. It is about the absence of “defensive mindset” across a number of Western society—inability to recognize the threat 4/5
We need our leaders to speak plainly about what’s at stake if we fail to counter Russian and Chinese irredentism. They need to mobilize our populations, for this is what will determine the outcome of the @NATO summit in Vilnius. We have the money, but do we have the guts? 5/End
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