US Ambassador to NATO Matthew Whittaker on Europe:

Since the fall of the Soviet Union, they have hollowed out their defenses.

They weren't strong and they weren't capable, and the plumbers from my home state of Iowa paid for European security, and it wasn't fair.

And so we have now entered a new era, what many are calling NATO 3.0, where Europe and Canada are finally stepping up. But is it fast enough? No.