Jens Stoltenberg, the Secretary General of NATO, accuses former US President Donald Trump of undermining the security of allies through the recent statement made by the former White House official in which he claimed that the US will not defend allied states that have not allocated the established amounts (minimum 2% of Gross Domestic Product) at the 2014 Glasgow Summit on the military sector and armed forces endowment.
NATO partners who don't fulfil their financial obligations would not get protection from Russia if Donald Trump were to re-take the White House in November, statements from Trump showed. Trump, campaigning in South Carolina ahead of the GOP primary on February 24, said he had told NATO members that they needed to pay up. “I said, ‘Everybody’s gonna pay.’ They said, ‘Well, if we don’t pay, are you still going to protect us?’ I said, ‘Absolutely not.’ They couldn’t believe the answer.” And, he sai
NATO plans to mobilize 90,000 soldiers for a manoeuvre aimed at deterring Russian aggression, in the biggest exercise staged by the alliance since the end of the Cold War. According to information obtained by dpa on Thursday, the scenario for the Steadfast Defender exercise due to start in February is a Russian attack on allied territory that triggers Article 5 of the NATO treaty that enshrines the promise of collective defence. Article 5 has been invoked only once, in the wake of the September
NATO is to hold large-scale military exercises in February involving 90,000 military personnel to rehearse a scenario of a Russian attack on the territory of a NATO member. Source: German press agency dpa, which learned the details on the sidelines of a meeting of the Alliance's top military representatives in Brussels; European Pravda; Bild Details: The Western defence alliance wants to mobilise about 90,000 soldiers for training, making the manoeuvres the largest since the end of the Cold War.