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Not sure people working on multilateral cooperation realize how big an impact the US shift on NATO could have. Many hoping Europe will step up to fill US funding gaps, but the US just told Europe to spend $644bn more on defense + that it's on its own if Russia comes storming in."
Tim Hirschel-Burns, a policy liason at Boston University's Global Development Policy Center, wrote on X
I spoke with @SecGenNATOto discuss how we can work together to build a stronger, more lethal and more sustainable NATO Alliance. We both agreed that increasing Allied defense spending and expanding industrial base capacity are central to this shared goal."
U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth also previously called for NATO to increase its defense spending and wrote on XThey have lost key categories of staff needed to build capacity, and current sanctions [are] making it more difficult and more expensive to build some of the advanced capabilities,
Nilsson said
I don’t believe for a second Russia is going to advance a war in any other country right now,
Republican Senator Markwayne Mullin told NBC News on Sunday
President Putin says it’s not Russia. I don’t see any reason why it would be,
he said after closed-door talks with Putin in HelsinkiIn the longer run, I’m not ruling out the possibility that the Russians will decide or calculate they could actually test Article 5,
But that ... he told POLITICO, referencing the alliance’s collective defense commitmentI know him very well. Yeah, I think he wants peace. I think he would tell me if he didn’t … I trust him on this subject,
Trump told reporters last weekWhile the ... the moment the war fighting in Ukraine stops or reduces, we’re sure the Russians will come back to our neighborhood,
he saidThis is, I think, a wake-up call for everyone globally to understand that the security of Europe and the Indo-Pacific has never been more directly linked than it is today. We don’t think that the reaction of the international community has been sufficient.”
Ukrainian foreign ministry spokesperson Georgiy Tykhy said
These accusations are totally untrue. That is the Russian narrative that we should not buy.”
In an interview published on Thursday by Agence France-Presse, Kallas saidDid I say that? I can’t believe I said that,
he said, before admittingWe’re not getting all of ours. I mean, quite a bit of ours was gifted. It was given. There were some loans, but mainly it was gifted actually.”
Starmer saidThe exact scale is still being assessed,
an official saidWhy are we in Nato? It is because we are afraid of Russia. And the only thing that really works – the only security guarantee that works – is Nato’s umbrella,
she saidOn Ukraine, Allies are preparing billions more in aid + contributions to security guarantees,
the NATO chief added, without specifying details
Well, ideally, it should be Russian money,
said economist Alexey Bayer
I don’t think it will be that slow,
he said in reference to Ukraine’s post-war reconstructionIt’s one thing to freeze assets; it’s another thing to confiscate assets,
said Alexander Cooley, a professor of political science at Barnard CollegeThe strength of the United States is that it makes this or that decision in a centralized manner, which is then consistently implemented,
he saidIn particular, the U.S. has huge stockpiles of weapons, they are a supplier of critically important intelligence information,
he said