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Nato Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg speaks during a media conference prior to a Nato summit in Brussels, Monday, June 27, 2022
NATO is set to expand its troop numbers eightfold from 40,000 to 300,000 in what its secretary general Jens Stoltenberg today said was the “biggest overhaul since the cold war.”
He was speaking ahead of the Nato summit which opens in the Spanish capital Madrid tomorrow when he announced the increased numbers,
“At the summit, we will strengthen our forward defences. We will enhance our battle groups in the eastern part of the alliance up to brigade levels.
SEVIM DAGDELEN says European Nato states are escalating ever closer to direct conflict with a nuclear power, and sacrificing welfare states built up over a century to finance it
The defence secretary’s resignation reveals not a split over principle but a dispute over pace of military spending, as Britain’s political Establishment unites behind deeper Nato commitments, argues NICK WRIGHT
