Ex-White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon has furiously torn into Europe's ruling class, branding them "complete and total deadbeats" in a furious GB News rant.Bannon criticised European nations for failing to meet defence spending commitments."I was the guy during the first Trump administration who had to ask you guys, 'would you consider getting up to 2.5 per cent that you committed after you forced your way into Ukraine in 2014?'" he said.He singled out specific countries for criticism, saying: "If you look particularly at the Germans, the Italians, some of these people are horrible."
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00:00You talk about declaring economic war on the Chinese Communist Party, but these tariffs also impacted or perhaps even declared economic war on your own allies, the European Union, Britain, Canada.
00:10Give me the allies again.
00:11European Union, Canada, Britain, Australia.
00:14I am so insulted by you using the term allies. Allies is supposed to be somebody in something together.
00:22The European elites are total and complete deadbeats.
00:26I was the guy on point in the first administration that had to be a supplicant to ask you guys, would you please consider getting up to the two and two and a half percent that you committed after you forced your way into Ukraine in 2014?
00:37You realized you were going to have a fight on your hands.
00:39You actually realized we have to get to two to two percent or two and a half percent, which none of you did.
00:44Only the Brits came close and later the polls.
00:47And if you look at really in particular the Germans, the Italians, some of these people are horrible.
00:50The French, if you actually look at where the defense budget goes, it's not going to combined arms operation.
00:56It's not going to maneuvers.
00:58It's not going to it's going to pensions or women's health care or or or climate change.
01:05Climate change is the big one.
01:06It's all phony.
01:07It's all fake.
01:08You haven't been an ally forever.
01:09You can't pull your weight.
01:11If you took the United States out of Western Europe today, militarily, the whole thing would collapse.
01:15We're the infrastructure and the backbone of everything.
01:18It's completely unacceptable.
01:20This is why they praise Joe Biden.
01:21If you read the new books coming out by Joe Biden, own chiefs of staff, they had to tell him, hey, you're not the president of NATO because he kept sitting there babbling.
01:29Well, you know, the NATO guys really love me.
01:31They love me.
01:31Of course, you're giving them everything.
01:33The Western European people must understand that their elites have not been have not been allies to the United States.
01:40You've looked at the burden of everything of manpower, right, of defense right now.
01:44You call yourself an ally in the Red Sea right now.
01:48We have two carrier battle groups.
01:49That's about 24,000 sailors doing airstrikes on the Houthis to keep the Red Sea open, to keep the Suez Canal open, to keep trade going to Europe so your prices don't explode.
02:03And you know what we have down there?
02:04Last I saw, you have, I think, one British destroyer, one French frigate, one Italian Corvette.
02:12You don't even take seriously your own thing.
02:13So how can we take you seriously?
02:14You're not allies.
02:15You don't act like allies.
02:17What you do is you bitch and you moan when the United States says, hey, look, we just can't do this forever.
02:22We have a trillion dollar defense budget and we've got to cut the defense budget.
02:26We're going to cut spending because we have a two trillion dollar deficit every year.