The meeting of NATO defense ministers focused on strengthening deterrence and Ukraine

According to the report of the international group Tasnim news agency, publication ” “D Site” wrote in an article: The two-day meeting of the defense ministers of NATO member countries will start today Thursday in Brussels. From 8:30 am local time, the NATO Council will hold a meeting with the Minister of Defense of Sweden, who is going to soon become a member of this military alliance. The NATO-Ukraine Council will discuss this issue from 1:00 p.m. and Ukrainian Defense Minister Rostam Umerov is expected to participate via video link.

According to Jens Stoltenberg, NATO Secretary General, This year, the 31 NATO member countries will achieve a two percent target for military spending, that is, two percent of their gross domestic product (GDP) will be spent on defense.

“Stoltenberg” asked the other 13 NATO countries to fulfill their obligations quickly. He recalled the decision of last year’s summit, according to which all coalition member countries wanted to increase their defense spending. He made a big splash when he questioned the defense coalition aid clause during a campaign appearance: Trump said he didn’t want to support coalition partners with insufficient defense spending if Russia attacked. He emphasized that on the contrary, he “encourages even Russia to do whatever it wants”. As the president of the United States, Trump repeatedly threatened NATO countries that have invested less than two percent of their economic power in defense, that he will end the support of the United States.

These statements of Trump have heated up the discussions about the need for an independent nuclear deterrent in this union.

In this regard, the German Finance Minister has announced that he wants to talk about this with the French president.

Catarina Barelli, the main candidate of the Social Democratic Party for the European elections, also expressed her doubt that Europe from now on be protected by the nuclear umbrella of the United States. This European official also raised the issue of independent European nuclear deterrence. The alliance will be military and will influence the discussions of this meeting.

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