Tag: alliance

Ex-Trump official’s blunt statements on alliance rattle South Korea

SEOUL, South Korea — As the U.S. election looms, frank remarks about America’s strategic priorities in Asia from a former senior official in the Trump administration Pentagon have sent ripples of fear racing across South Korea. In interviews with leading news outlets here, ex-Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Strategy and Force Development Eldridge Colby stated […]

NATO Chief Says Ukraine Will Join the Alliance

On a day marking the anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the secretary general of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization dropped a diplomatic bombshell of his own. “Ukraine will join NATO,” Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said, according to a transcript of his speech. “It is not a question of if, but of when.” JUST […]