Dearlove criticizes Trump's security statement for failing to explicitly name Russia as a global threat.
“you can't write a statement about security without including clear reference to Russia as a global threat.”
Dearlove argues air cover is the only practical security guarantee Ukraine would accept.
“I think the only practical security guarantee personally is a guarantee of air cover because the Ukrainians will not accept, I think, boots on the ground and neither will the Russians.”
Dearlove argues terrorism does not present a systemic threat to the nation despite horrible individual attacks.
“I don't think terrorism in its current form, you know, presents a systemic threat to the nation. It presents, the possibility of horrible happenings, which we are learning how to deal with.”
Dearlove challenges claims that leaving the EU would reduce UK security.
“The argument that we would be less secure if we left the EU is, in reality, rather difficult to make.”