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Jun 15 2021
News
From China to cyber, has Biden agenda reinvigorated NATO?
President Joe Biden’s approach to international alliances and shared values has helped inject a renewed sense of purpose into NATO. But could its focus become too diffuse?
Atmospherics and style are not everything.
But in bringing his commitment to America’s alliances to the NATO summit Monday, along with his conviction that democracies are best suited to meet the 21st century’s
Christian Science MonitorApr 14 2022
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Russia makes nuclear threat to Sweden, Finland over NATO consideration
Russia will have to bolster its defenses in the Baltic Sea -- including a potential nuclear escalation -- if Sweden and Finland join NATO, Moscow said on Thursday.
"There can be no more talk of any nuclear-free status for the Baltic - the balance must be restored," Dmitry Medvedev, deputy chairman of Russia’s security council and former president of Russia, said, Reuters reported.
Fox News DigitalApr 18 2024
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Trump’s Proposed Ukraine ‘Deal’ Threatens European Security
Less than two months after rattling NATO allies by saying that he would encourage Russia “to do whatever the hell they want” with those not meeting their defense spending targets, Donald Trump has Europeans on tenterhooks again. According to Washington Post reporting, Trump’s plan to “solve the war in 24 hours,” as he promised in January 2023, consists of pressuring Ukraine into giving up
The DispatchMar 23 2022
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NATO: 7,000 to 15,000 Russian troops dead in Ukraine
NATO estimated on Wednesday that 7,000 to 15,000 Russian soldiers have been killed in four weeks of war in Ukraine, where ferocious fighting by the country’s fast-moving defenders has denied Moscow the lightning victory it sought.
By way of comparison, Moscow lost about 15,000 soldiers in Afghanistan over 10 years.
A senior NATO military official said the alliance’s estimate was
Associated PressMar 23 2022
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NATO doubles its battlegroups in Eastern Europe ahead of multiple summits.
NATO is doubling its battlegroups on the alliance’s eastern flank in response to Russia’s continuing war in Ukraine, the group’s secretary general said on Wednesday, a day ahead of major summits in which President Biden will meet with European allies in Brussels.
The secretary general, Jens Stoltenberg, also focused on what import Russia’s potential use of any chemical or biological
New York Times (News)Sep 24 2022
Opinion
Putin is on the ropes and US, NATO must call his bluff with these 3 lines of support
Russian President Vladimir Putin knows that the abject failure of his "special military operation" in Ukraine now represents the greatest threat he has ever faced to his own regime security.
The Department of Defense estimates that over 80,000 Russian soldiers have been killed or wounded in a war, which Putin said would last days but is now in its seventh month. Ukraine’s blistering
Fox News (Opinion)Mar 21 2022
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Russia may not stop with Ukraine – NATO looks to its weakest link
Hours after Russian missiles first struck Ukrainian cities on Feb. 24, German naval commander Terje Schmitt-Eliassen received notice to sail five warships under his command to the former Soviet Republic of Latvia to help protect the most vulnerable part of NATO's eastern flank.
Ukraine crisis assets Map showing the major land and sea chokepoints in the Baltic region
The hasty
ReutersJul 11 2018
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Trump, NATO Chief Have Tense Exchange at Summit
President Trump confronted NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg Wednesday over the energy agreements several European countries have with Russia.
TownhallJul 11 2018
News
Trump begins NATO summit with attacks on 'delinquent' allies
President Trump on Wednesday wasted no time at the NATO summit in airing grievances over a perceived lack of defense spending by allies, previewing what is likely to be a confrontational next couple of days in Belgium.
The HillAug 18 2022
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Putin Would Nuke NATO to Defend Russian Speakers in Baltics, Ally Suggests
A Kremlin propagandist with close links to Vladimir Putin has said that Russia should use nuclear weapons against the West to protect Russian speakers in the Baltic states.
Vladimir Solovyov was giving his reaction to restrictions being proposed in Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia on Russian citizens and Russian speakers, in response to Putin's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Newsweek