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all the way to New York City. Harry, welcome. Thanks for having me.
So, what do you think of the president's speech?
Well, I mean, he's got good behavior, right? If you compare it to last year's speech, which was, you know, he was hectoring the UN, saying they were, you know, openly assisting nations open borders around the world. He was negging on the interior. He said, you know, the floor was cheap, the marble was rubbish. Compared to that, it was a far more statesmanlike speech.
I think he's one eye on the midterms, I suspect, sort of rising above his usual, you know, style of sticking it to them. But, you know, so he hit, he hit home on, you know, some of the things he delivered. But that Iran question still lingering over him. Right. And look, he says, I'm somebody, he goes, I don't just name problems.
I address problems. One thing about the president, he's going to go down in history saying, okay, you got a problem in Rwanda. What's the problem? Let's try to fix it. What's the problem?
You know, he kind of created a problem in Ireland. Let's just make it one Ireland. UK probably above that. But then when it comes to Iran, you've been a problem.
So let's deal with it. You don't want to talk?
Okay, we're going to bomb out your nuclear facilities. You still don't want to talk? We're going to take another shot. And that's where we're at right now. And that's what the meeting with the Gulf states this afternoon is going to mean so much.
And I talked to Marco Rubio. We might want to pull this cut about NATO. And you know, Marco Rubio is the statesman, not only in title, but in life. And I said, how disappointed are you? And the NATO's done nothing.
Nothing.
Now I know you were ticked off the way it started. You didn't get your normal briefing and there was no trumpets before it started. But since then, why is it not in your interest to play a role?
Well, I thought the point that Rubio made to you this morning was spot on when she said, What is the point of being in America and being in NATO if we're not going to be able to, if you're not going to come to our aid, if you're not going to help us, if you're not going to use up, let us use these supposedly shared bases in Diego Garcia, in the Indian Ocean, on the British mainland, in Germany, if you're just going to, you know, the one time you actually want to use them, why are we picking up the tap for this? And I thought, you know, as ever with Rubio, he made it in a very elegant way. But you're so right about Trump as well, in the fact that the UN is a talking shop. What does it do? It sends strongly worded letters, it writes reports, it wrings its hands at hours of needs.
And, you know, fair play to the president standing up and going, well, you know what, I have actually done stuff. Rather than just moping and moaning and spending 47 years saying how terrible Iran is. NATO's not paying their fair share.
Okay, no, now they are. Not all of them. Not all of them. Certainly not all of them. But it's better than where it was.
Look at Germany. Just take Germany, for example. They have gone on a massive rearmament after 30 years. And for obvious reasons, they were a bit cautious at the beginning, at the end of the last century, perhaps of rearmament. But look where they've gone now.
They were not pulling their weight on NATO. But then you've still got problems like the Spanish, who are just refusing to play ball on those.
So. Is it true that Europe's a little nervous about the uh German arms buildup? They don't have a great representation represent. Reputation over the last 150 years. I like every army.
Well, listen, I like people playing their way. I like Patrick's building up too. Look at Angela Merkel. She was heralded as this great stateswoman, the greatest European leader of her generation. What did she do?
She let in a million Syrians. She opened a gas pipeline with Putin, and she let the German armed forces train with broomsticks rather than weapons. And look, you know, compared to where Germany compared to where they were even 10 years ago, I welcome it.
So, Harry, people think you're kidding with the broomsticks. No, no, no, no, no, there's a real weapon. This is what I'm talking about. Was you just named?
Now, when Anglo Merkel was the statesman, the senior statesman, Barack Obama likes him, and they get along, right? And they were in a rowing boo at one point, were they together? But long term, look what's happening. And I say this. This is the whole thing with Trump.
We're not seeing it yet because we're in the middle of it. But at some point, People are gonna go, Wow. You know, we had Central and South America who was being heavily introduced by China and Russia. We were just letting it go. Cuba was the problem since I was, before I was born, all I heard about the way Cuba could be, right?
Fidel Castro. Cuba's going to fall in the next year or two. It's just been strangled right now because until they can put some type of democracy in.
So the Venezuela situation, which was a real menace to go back to George W. Bush's administration, and that's now addressed.
Now you have NATO paying their fair share, and Russia's helped. Russia's helped with that because they have now alerted us to the legitimate problem. And now in the Middle East, from the Abraham Accords to addressing the one planter's wart in the middle, and that is Iran. I think that if you could take a step back, you're beginning to see somebody who will be looked at better in the rearview mirror than they are when you don't have to use a mirror. Yeah, I think the table has been flipped, right?
And it's in the air still. And it's going to land at some point. But as you say, the way the geopolitical world order is really is coming together now. All signs look that you know it is going to be better. And just in the Gulf, as you say, who would have thought even five years ago, ten years ago, you'd have Gulf states basically on the same side as Israel?
You know, it's it's it you'd be laughed at if you'd said that fifteen years ago. And people don't like Donald Trump's style, right? They don't like being hectored and lectured, but sometimes you know, someone's got to be the boy in the Emperor's new clothes who points the finger and says the unpopular thing, right? And he revels. It's great for our business, yeah.
He revels in that role. He revels in that role. I mean, you know, there's never a day where he doesn't commit news, even if sometimes the news he commits is about the news. It is a remarkable. I don't think we realize that quite how much has shifted.
As you say, it's still in flux. And you're going to need a little bit of hindsight and you're going to need a little bit of rearview mirror to look at it. But maybe live in exciting times.
So, yeah, and how the Iran war and If something happens in the next 40 days, we see Tehran's capital being stormed. That would be one thing. I want you to hear a little of what he mentioned about the number one issue, and that is munitions when it comes to this war. The cowards and traders would love to say the United States is low on munitions, but that's not true. We have more munitions than we could ever possibly even think of using, and we're building them at levels that we have never done before.
We are adding to our stockpiles faster than we have ever been able to do before. Top of the line stuff. In addition, in the very near future, massive munition plants will be opening. There are 18 of them being built by the greatest defense companies in the world right now. Eighteen under construction.
Some of them very quickly will be completed. They're almost there. And that rapid construction will be leading to very rapid deployment of missiles of every type and ammunition of every type, and we'll be able to supply our allies at a much faster rate than we're doing right now. Your thought. I mean, obviously the the the support given to Ukraine plus Iran plus the fact is that the warfare is changing in such a remarkably rapid pace that actually this sort of debate about stocks and munitions, I think actually sort of is actually a bit of a sideshow to the fact that actually some of the lessons we're learning from Iran and the lessons we're learning from Ukraine is actually these multi-million pound dollar dollars sorry, slipping into the old country there.
These multi-million pound dollar armaments can be taken out by drones that cost Thousands, perhaps tens of thousands of dollars. Actually, we need to have a far more broad conversation about what modern warfare really looks like in the battle ball. And we can see that in Ukraine, in the fact that actually the technology is changing and moving so fast that I think we're having a debate about the speed and speed of munitions that is completely out of date. And speaking to experts and sort of strategists and war, people that do war as business, they're saying when you talk about oh, we don't have this number of X number of ship defending missiles or this X number of interceptors. In a war with China, none of that will actually matter.
This is going to be taking place on a level, on a level in the structure of the world. In a developing space. Yeah, exactly.
So, actually, you know, we are sort of slightly stuck in the past when the speed of modern warfare has sped up so quickly that actually this debate, I think, is a bit of a sideshow.
So let's talk about Andy Burnham, your new prime minister. Yes. Wow. They're going to meet today. I'll tell you one thing.
I was impressed with his speech. He carried it live. And the fact that he was able to, you know, Tony Boyer was a great speaker. Yeah. And, you know, and so was Cameron.
I thought Cameron was okay, but I don't know about the last guy I was totally unimpressed with. But this one, it's hard to keep up with your prime ministers.
Well, this is the sixth prime minister Donald Trump would have met as a president. But you mentioned the first thing he did is sanction Israel and the West Frontier. Yeah, that was his first sort of big foreign policy move. Look, the problem with Kierstarma was, you know, people say he was a good guy, but he was boring. He was dull, he was uncharismatic.
He was a tedious kind of left-wing lawyer who wasn't really suited to be a politician. Andy Burnham is a much more political guy, right? He is much more presentable. But is there anything behind the TikTok account, right? He's there strumming his guitar in Ukraine and he's kind of cool and hip and he wears trainers and he likes soccer and he's kind of down with the kids and he likes music and he's got a big following on social media.
But really, what is there beyond that, beyond the presentation, is actually a bit of an enigma. Every policy he's ever had he's shifted on him. When Tony Blair was in power, he was a Blairite. He was a big old centrist.
Now he's shifting further and further to the left because he's. He thinks there's an electoral advantage there. The problem that the left have in the United Kingdom is they're deeply split between the Greens, who are essentially communists. You have an Islamist bloc vote now that is voting on single issues like Gaza. And so for a guy who's trying to shore up the left-wing position in the UK, sanctioning Israel was a no-brainer.
Does he actually believe it? We don't know. Where does he stand on immigration?
Well, he says he understands, and he cares, and he understands. He's warm. He understands that people in the north of England are concerned about it. Is he going to do anything about it? We haven't seen that yet.
He comes from a far more open borders tradition, a sort of left-wing intellectual position that finds the whole debate about immigration quite icky, if that makes sense. He doesn't want to talk about it. He wants to be the nice guy. But actually, the British public want to talk about it, and that's going to be one of his biggest weaknesses. And I suspect, you know, Donald Trump has made very clear his views on British immigration, European immigration.
I suspect that will be a flashboard. How many years have we spent listening to politicians in Washington argue about how? To make healthcare insurance more affordable, Obamacare was supposed to fix it. Then we needed bigger government subsidies to make Obamacare affordable. Those subsidies expired, and guess what?
People are paying more again at some point. Maybe the question isn't how do we keep fixing the same system? Maybe the question is, what else is out there? That's why I want you to take a look at WeShare Health. WeShare isn't health insurance, it's a non-profit Christian healthcare sharing organization, and their members pay up to 60% less than they would for Obamacare.
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About Harry and Megan. Yeah, not Harry, not Harry you, but they come back. Yeah. They quickly pulled their kids out of school because they said they lost their privacy. What have you found out is behind this retrenchment in Britain?
It's bizarre, isn't it? It kind of came out of nowhere in the fact that they made such a big song and dance about leaving, right? And they literally burnt down the house on the way out. They tore down the royal family. They made accusations of racism.
They kind of ruined, they made the last years of the late Queen's life really kind of uncomfortable by having this very public schism played out in Spotify podcasts and Netflix series and books. And you kind of think if they come back now with their tail between their legs because they've run out of celebrity parties to go to in LA, then kind of what was the point of it all? And the British public will always remember Harry as that little boy who was walking behind his mother's funeral procession. What was he, nine, eight, eight or nine at the time? And there'll always be a little bit of sympathy and and and and just remembering that and you know But they're pushing the British public's patience.
Diana's brother wrote a book. Yeah. And it's basically said. That's what attracts some of his people. And said the king, one of the things he said about the king was not happy when Diana died.
Well, yeah. And anyone that saw, you know, King Charles, you know, whatever their thoughts of their marriage, whatever mistakes were made, you saw the. grief etched on his face. He flew to Paris to reclaim his ex-wife's Body and escort it home. That wasn't a man who was cock a hoop.
And you just think it just doesn't pass the sniff test. You know, you sit on that for thirty years and you don't see it. And he's gone, you know, he's got a book to sell, right?
So it's gone down very badly. He he thought, I think he thought his reaction, the response from the public and the and actually the people who put their hands in their pocket and buy the books, I hear it hasn't gone so it hasn't been flying off the shelves. It's gone down very badly. And actually, the king has been unpopular in a long time. He was waiting for the job he he has now.
But I don't think anyone thinks he's doing a bad job now. And don't forget, he is suffering from cancer. He's still pulling a hell of a shift. And then to use that word, that C word, there's a cancer at the heart of the British establishment. Yeah, there actually is.
The guy's getting radiotherapy for it at the moment. And last thing, you know, we're caught up. I know you live here now, but you you work for the sun. And I know we're all caught up in the AI race. He people talk about.
China and and the US. How does the UK feel about this? Because the President has just renamed artificial intelligence. Listen. The United States also totally rejects any attempt to construct a globalist scheme to control for the artificial intelligence being spoken of so much now, hereinafter officially called super intelligence, changing the name, and that the use of the word artificial makes intelligence fake.
It makes it sound fake, and it is not fake. It's actually amazing. But we have to be careful. In fact, it is exactly the opposite of what it purports. From this point forward, all of United States documents and hopefully the world's will be changed to use the much more accurate term, super, as opposed to artificial.
So it's super intelligent.
So he's uh he's changed the marketing.
So what do you thought? What is what do does Britain care about this? Yeah, they're having a similar debate that that that's kind of happening in the in the US, right? That is there genuinely there's these dangers? I think there are, but are they being overplayed by politicians who are desperate, like the Democrats here, to latch on to a political cause that they can use to beat up the current administration or beat up the current oligarchy that they see controlling all of these tech firms?
How much of it is actually being played out? I think for countries like Britain, the far more interesting debate and the far more realistic threat is a sovereignty issue in the fact that actually a lot of these firms are either Chinese or American. And actually, we've seen it recently with Anthropic, where the president, through a direct order, can essentially cut off international Access to these platforms, to these models. That's a very dangerous place for a country, once great power, now middling power that Britain is, frankly, if you admit it, is a very dangerous place to be.
So they're trying to get themselves into the debate and into the AI world. People basically accept that Britain is about the third player. And so AI safety, I think, is a sort of way for Britain to sort of insert its way into this global race. And so things like the British AI Safety Institute, which was set up by the previous government, can play a really important role.
So there is a role for Britain, but I just think all the scare stories are. I hear you. Harry Coyle, always great. He's editor-at-large of The Sun, and I'm glad you landed here.
