Wednesday, December 25

Tag: nato

13Dec By AdminsNo Comments

Nato must switch to a wartime mindset, warns secretary general

The head of Nato has said it is time to "shift to a wartime mindset", as he warned the military alliance's members were not spending enough to prepare for the threat of a future conflict with Russia. Secretary general Mark Rutte said Moscow was "preparing for long-term confrontation with Ukraine and with us", describing the current security situation as the worst in his lifetime. "We are not ready for what is coming our way in four to five years," he said in his first major speech since becoming secretary general in October, urging members to "turbocharge" their defence spending. His comments come weeks before president-elect Donald Trump takes office, having previously suggested the US would not protect Nato allies that were failing to spend enough on defence. Reut...
Read More
NATO’s next challenge: How to reverse years of underfunding defense
5Apr By AdminsNo Comments

NATO’s next challenge: How to reverse years of underfunding defense

The 75-year history of NATO can be described in three acts, each defined by existential threats to Western security. First, there was the Cold War and the Soviet threat. Act Two came in the 1990s and 2000s, when NATO deployed troops for the first time in Bosnia and Kosovo, followed by Afghanistan and Iraq. From 2014 onwards, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s first invasion of Ukraine and ISIS’s self-proclaimed caliphate brought armed threats right back to the alliance’s borders at a time when the United States and its allies were slowly retreating from the world. NATO’s fourth act may be defined by a crisis that has unfolded in slow motion. For over a decade, allies have chronically underspent on defense while the West’s adversaries modernized and bolstered their own military capabiliti...
Read More
Hungarian leader says Donald Trump will end the war in Ukraine by not giving ‘a penny’
13Mar By AdminsNo Comments

Hungarian leader says Donald Trump will end the war in Ukraine by not giving ‘a penny’

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has said Donald Trump would effectively end the war in Ukraine by cutting off funding to Kyiv, should the former United States president return to power in November. "He (Trump) has a very clear vision," Orban said in an interview to Hungarian broadcaster M1 broadcast on Sunday. "He says the following: first, he will not give a single penny for the Russo-Ukrainian war. That's why the war will end, because it's obvious that Ukraine cannot stand on its own two feet." Then-US. president Donald Trump welcomes Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban to the White House in Washington, in May, 2019. The pair have long opposed providing Wesern military aid to Ukraine. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File) (AP) Orban's comments came after Tr...
Read More
On Cloud Sneakers | Lucchese Outlet | Oboz Canada | Freebird Boots | Born Shoes | Carolina Boots | Topo Shoes | Whites Boots | Crispi Boots | Dingo Boots | Barefoot Shoes Canada | LaCrosse Boots | Cuadra Boots | Lems Shoes | Anderson Bean Boots | Mizuno Shoes | Wesco Boots | Scarpa Boots | Brahmin Bags | Bueno Shoes | Hobo Handbags | HELM Boots | Dryshod Boots | HOKA Shoes | Beis Canada | Marc Jacobs Outlet | Keen Schuhe | Tecovas Outlet | Florsheim Boots | Vasque Boots | Ferrini Boots |