Comfort Ero, International Crisis Group's President & CEO emphasizes the need for Europe to take an active role regarding to Russia-Ukraine conflict.
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00:00Comfort Iroh is president of the International Crisis Group.
00:04She spoke to CGTN about why it's important for Europe to step up to protect Ukraine.
00:10We expected some kind of negotiation and that Trump would reach out to Putin.
00:17He'd indicated this in his election campaigns.
00:20There was no surprise for us when he announced that he had this phone call with Putin
00:25and that we always said that the two leaders are likely to talk
00:29and what was clear for Europe was to make sure that you're at the table in some way,
00:33that this is about the European security architecture,
00:36that whatever is decided in relation to Ukraine would have an impact on Europe
00:41and that Europe needed to step up and lean into its own multilateral architecture as well.
00:47To be fair, Europe has already started thinking about its own defence industrial base.
00:52It's already thinking about how it's going to use its money
00:55to underwrite the necessary assistance that Ukraine needs for itself.
01:00Yes, this has been a wake-up call.