>>> 33 PAST THE HOUR.
WE CONTINUE TO SEE SUPPORT FOR
UKRAINE FROM SOME COUNTRIES WITH
RECENT TRADITIONS OF STAYING OUT OF INTERNATIONAL CONFLICTS.
OF INTERNATIONAL CONFLICTS.
IN A RARE MOVE JAPAN IS SENDING
BULLET-PROOF VESTS AND OTHER
MILITARY SUPPLIES TO UKRAINE.
THE COUNTRY IS NOT SENDING
WEAPONS BECAUSE OF A
SELF-IMPOSED BAN, BUT PROVIDING
MILITARY EQUIPMENT IS A SIGN THE
COUNTRY IS IN LINE WITH ITS
WESTERN ALLIES.
JAPAN HAS ALSO SAID IT WILL TAKE
IN REFUGEES, WHICH REALLY IS AN
EXTRAORDINARY MOVE.
>> YEAH, KATTY KAY, CAN WE STOP
THERE FOR ONE SECOND?
>> YEAH.
>> TWO THINGS HAPPENED.
THE WORLD HAS CHANGED RADICALLY.
>> IT IS THE REACTION.
>> PEOPLE ARE QUOTING VLADIMIR
LENIN WHERE THE OLD QUOTE WHERE
DECADES GO BY WHERE IT SEEMS
LIKE NOTHING HAPPENS, A WEEK
GOES BY WHERE IT SEEMS LIKE
DECADES HAPPEN.
ACTUALLY, THIS REMINDS ME OF
THOSE WEEKS IN 1989 WHEN ONE
COUNTRY AFTER THE OTHER FELL,
SOVIET-BACKED COUNTRY FELL.
I DON'T THINK WE CAN EXPLAIN TO
MAYBE YOUNGER PEOPLE THAT ARE
WATCHING WHAT A RADICAL
DEPARTURE IT IS FOR GERMANY, WHO
HAS BEEN HAUNTED BY NAZIISM
SINCE 1945, GERMANY MOVING NOW
AGGRESSIVELY TO BUILD THEIR
MILITARY.
IT IS GOING TO BE LARGER,
THEY'RE GOING TO SPEND MORE
MONEY ON THEIR MILITARY THAN
RUSSIA DOES NOW.
JAPAN MAKING THIS MOVE.
JAPAN.
NOTHING SHORT --
>> AMAZING.
>> THOSE TWO COUNTRIES THAT LOST
IN WORLD WAR II AND TURNED THEIR
BACKS ON ANY MILITARY MOVES, FOR
THOSE TWO COUNTRIES TO COME UP
IS EXTRAORDINARY.
>> JAPAN'S CONSTITUTION IS A
PASSIVIST CONSTITUTION.
IT IS WRITTEN INTO LAW THAT IT
DOESN'T GET INVOLVED IN THE
MILITARY BECAUSE OF WHAT
HAPPENED IN WORLD WAR II.
I THINK YOU ARE RIGHT ABOUT
YOUNGER GENERATIONS.
I MEAN THERE'S BEEN A LOT OF
CRITICISM, WHY DIDN'T GERMANY DO
THIS EARLIER, WHY DIDN'T GERMANY
EXPAND ITS MILITARY BUDGET
EARLIER.
IN THE 1960s AND '70s, THERE
WERE A LOT OF COUNTRIES IN
EUROPE AND AROUND THE WORLD THAT
WOULD HAVE BEEN HORRIFIED AT
GERMANY EXPANDING ITS MILITARY
BUDGET.
THE LAST THING WE WANTED WAS
MORE OF A MILITARY GERMANY.
>> IN 1989 WHEN WESTERN AND EAST
GERMANY BROKE THE FRENCH WERE
INCENSED.
MIKA AND I WERE AT AN EVENT
WHERE THEY WERE HONORING GEORGE
H.W. BUSH, BUSH 41 AND THE
GERMANS WERE THERE.
HELMET COLE WAS THERE THANKING
GEORGE H.W. BUSH SAYING, WITHOUT
YOU GERMANY WOULD NEVER BE
UNITED.
IN 1989 EUROPE DID NOT WANT A
UNITED GERMANY BECAUSE THEY WERE
FEARFUL.
>> THEY WERE NERVOUS.
MANY OF THE SCENES WE HAVE BEEN
SEEING FROM UKRAINE HAVE BROUGHT
BACK PTSD, THE SCENES OF PEOPLE
TRYING TO FLEE BY TRAIN, OF
PLAYING MUSIC IN UNDERGROUND
BUNKERS LIKE THEY DID DURING THE
BLITZ.
IF THIS EUROPEAN ROBUSTNESS AND
UNITY WE HAVE SEEN OVER THE LAST
WEEK, IN THE LAST TEN DAYS, IF
IT HOLDS WE ARE MOVING FROM A
BIPOLAR
BIPOLAR WORLD POTENTIALLY TO A
TRIPOLAR WORLD.
THEY HAVE SPENDING POUR,WER, THE
HAVE A MILITARY BUDGET, IT COULD
CHANGE THE POWER PLAY.
>> WE DISMISSED THE EUROPEANS ON
THE RIGHT TOO OFTEN.
DON RUMSFELD CALLED THEM
CHOCOLATE MAKERS, THE CHOCOLATE
MAKERS OF EUROPE.
YOU HAVE TRUMP AND TRUMPISTS SO
DISMISSIVE OF EUROPE.
BUT YOU KEEP LOOKING AT THE GDP.
THE UNITED STATES, OVER $20
TRILLION.
THE EU, OVER $20 TRILLION.
JUST REMINDER, IT WAS EUROPEAN
COUNTRIES THAT WERE ANGRY WHEN
WE LEFT AFGHANISTAN AND LEFT
THEM THERE.
IT WAS EUROPEAN COUNTRIES THAT
WERE ANGRY WHEN WE ABANDONED THE
KURDS AND LEFT THEM IN SYRIA,
WHEN TRUMP ABANDONED THE KURDS
AND LEFT SYRIA.
SO, AGAIN, THEY ARE GREAT
ALLIES.
THIS REALLY DOES TURN THE WORLD