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Van Orden: What happened in Ukraine was a wake-up call

Politiko 2025-02-16 11:54:42

Van Orden: What happened in Ukraine was a wake-up call

Geoffrey Van Orden, present at the presentation of the DP's economic program, in collaboration with opposition experts and with the support of the German CDU Foundation, "Konrad Adenauer spoke about the current security situation in Europe and the world.

Van Orden said that what has happened in Ukraine is a wake-up call and we must learn lessons.

"It is a pleasure to return to Tirana and it is a pleasure to be here on a platform with Mr. Berisha. I do not speak on behalf of the British government and Europe, so I am only giving you my impressions. I was a British naval officer for 30 years, then I left the Conservative delegation. We need to wake up and I think that is the message that is being sent to us from the other side of the Atlantic. It seems like there is a division between the countries that have been members. We live in a divided, the conflict in Gaza, the threat to Israel continues to be present.

Nearly 1,000 miles to the east, we have the Russians continuing to attack Ukraine, and it's been almost three years since Russia attacked a sovereign country in Europe. All the bloodshed and damage that has been done is horrific. I want to point out that first we had Mr. Pitt, who is the US secretary of state and appears to have been Mr. Trump's emissary, who has delivered a new message to Europe. You have to look carefully at the words he referred to, he made it clear that the US remains committed to the NATO alliance, he also added that protecting European security should be essential for NATO member states. It is in our common strategic interest that the US be committed to the security of Europe. We need to look our American cousins ​​in the eye and tell them that we are carrying the burden that is ours. Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, European countries have been disarming.

"A colossal proportion of government spending has gone to defense in recent years. We have done the opposite, I want to open our eyes to what happened in Ukraine. This has been a wake-up call for us, we need to do more. I think we need to learn a lesson. Let's not forget the lessons of history and victory will be ours," Van Orden said.

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