here to talk about it is cnn senior military analyst admiral james stavridis.he's a former nato supreme allied commander, partner at the carlyle group. that's a global investment firm. he's also coauthor of the novel 2054, which comes out in paperback next week. admiral, to what extent is nato dependent on the u.s. and can it survive without us? >> yeah. >> i think. >> it can survive without us. >> i hope it never gets. >> to that point. >> but, michael. let's just. >> do the numbers. >> for a minute. >> you know, our. >> population. 350 million. >> there are 450 million europeans. let's talk about active. >> duty military. >> u.s. has 1.5 million. europe has 2 million troops under arms, active duty. and by the way, many of them highly experienced in combat. they are highly blooded armed forces because of the forever wars where they deployed alongside us in enormous numbers. so yes, europe has a capability. and finally, could they build a significant defense industrial base? you bet. look at the 25 largest defense firms in the world. ten of them are from the u.

. >> joining us now, cnn's senior military analyst, retired admiral james stavridis. he's a former nato supreme allied commander. he's also a partner at the carlyle group, a global investment firm. admiral, thank you so much for joining us. first, let me get your reaction to this announcement that the u.s. is stopping, at least for now, intelligence sharing with ukraine. >> you know, we used to talk about maximum pressure campaign on iran. what i'm starting to feel like is we want to put maximum pressure on an ally, a partner, a friend, and that would be ukraine. so i, for one, do not believe this is going to contribute to getting this deal back together again. but it certainly of a piece with pausing the arms shipments. i would say militarily, wolf, this is as critical because this intelligence is what was enabling the ukrainians to launch strikes inside russia, as well as against russians who are about to attack them as they were approaching ukraine. this is going to cost ukrainians lives. and i hope we quickly come off the pause both on this intelligence sharing an

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joining me now, cnn senior military analyst james stavridis. he's the former supreme allied commander of nato, a retired four star navy admiral, a partner at the carlyle group, a global investment firm. he serves on the board of advisors for a handful of defense related companies, and is the author of a terrific book, the restless wave a novel of the united states navy. admiral. i imagine you have seen many squabbles like this among world leaders and military leaders, but not on camera. yeah. >> you hit the right point. by the way, i agree with. your analysis. overall. um, i go back a decade ago when the nato heads of state and government, including our president barack obama, who, by the way, his nickname was no drama obama. he knew enough to keep those kind of disagreements out of the photo spray at the top of the event. and he and other world leaders would go toe to toe with hamid karzai about how we were conducting the war in afghanistan. putting that all on display does neither side any good. >> can the european allies make up for a total

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joining us now, cnn senior military analyst, former nato supreme allied commander, admiral james stavridis. we should note admiral stavridis is a partner at the carlyle group, a global investment firm, and he serves on the board of advisors for a handful of defense related companies. admiral, very nice to see you. our nick paton walsh on the ground in ukraine. just heard from a ukrainian official who tells him they could run out of artillery shells by may. if the united states continues this pause in military aid, what would the impact of that be? >> oh, it would be devastating on the front lines. this really has turned into a world war one level battle of artillery back and forth, tanks moving back and forth, trench warfare. john, if it were a novel, it would be all quiet on the western front. it is, uh, the coin of the realm in this conflict at this moment. are those artillery shells? so the europeans have some capacity here, but they're going to have to really stoke their own fires. and by may that's going to be a real problem on the battlefield. >> um, the question is, cui bono, who be