NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg made the rounds with Pentagon officials and congressional leaders during a quick Washington visit this week to rally support for a new aid package for Ukraine in its nearly two-year war to repel Russian invaders. But on Wednesday, the NATO chief may have faced his most skeptical audience at the […]
Germany is contemplating reinstating conscription because war with Russia within the next 5 years is now considered a distinct possibility. That sounds insane despite the fact that European countries are seriously underprepared to defend themselves. Germany barely has a functional military anymore, despite promises to radically increase military readiness. German Leopard tanks are failing in […]
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration has approved the sale of F-16 fighter jets to Turkey following the Turkish government’s ratification this week of Sweden’s membership in NATO. The move is a significant development in the expansion of the alliance, which has taken on additional importance since Russia‘s invasion of Ukraine. The State Department notified Congress […]
NATO signed on Tuesday a $1.2-billion contract to make tens of thousands of artillery rounds to replenish the dwindling stocks of its member countries as they supply ammunition to Ukraine to help it defeat Russia’s invasion. Source link
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban sent a letter to his Swedish counterpart, Ulf Kristersson, inviting him to Budapest to discuss Sweden’s accession into the NATO military alliance, Orban wrote Tuesday in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter. Source link
NATO next week will kick off the alliance’s largest war games since the Cold War era, as an estimated 90,000 troops from all NATO countries and Sweden, which still awaits final approval for its membership bid, are expected to take part in “Exercise Steadfast Defender 2024.” Source link
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