The world is in a “pre-war” state

report Mehr News Agency quoted by Rashatodi, British Defense Minister Grant Shapps warned those NATO members who do not spend 2% of their GDP in the defense sector, claiming that this Countries are gambling with the future of the West.

Shoppes, in an article published in the Telegraph, said that NATO members must accept that the West is now in a pre-war state and therefore must reduce their defense spending. increase.

He added: We must look beyond the goal set by NATO to increase and strengthen our defense forces. However, some countries have not even met the 2% target. This should not continue. We cannot allow them to play Russian Roulette with our future.

Many NATO countries have been struggling to achieve the 2% target for years, but the spending process of countries after the 2014 Ukraine crisis, especially the Russian attack on this country in February 2022 , accelerated. Last year, out of 32 NATO members, only 11 managed to meet the goals of this military alliance led by the US.

Shops also repeated the West’s baseless claims about Iran and without mentioning the Zionist regime’s war-making in the Gaza Strip and the London and American attacks on Sana’a, and claimed: NATO members must Once again, as a matter of urgency, review the future of this coalition. Now we have entered the pre-war world from the post-war world. Russia threatens our neighbors. China has become more daring. Iran uses proxy forces to create chaos in the region from the Middle East to the Straits of Yemen, and North Korea always openly fights with nuclear forces.

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk made similar claims last week, saying that Europe has entered a “pre-war era”.