establishment of the caliphate in mosul that year brought the fight against terrorism and violent extremism in a sharper focus as well so we did have a wake up call in that period and i think it has led to huge change in the alliance not least of which was a huge change in our defense spending and a look at what we really need today to counter both of these kinds of challenges but despite the fact that you provide ukraine with what stoltenberg called strong political and practical support it makes no difference to what russia s moves in the military field in that area has it it s strengthened its naval forces it s built up its tanks according to the chief of staff ukraine general staff last year they built up tanks along the border they re not being deterred by your strong support political or otherwise for ukraine other i think they ve taken notice we
built up tanks along the border they re not being deterred by your strong support political or otherwise for ukraine other i think they ve taken notice we have put a quite a bit into training but i want to give credit to the ukrainian armed forces themselves they have been doing a lot to professionalize and develop their capability and capacity over the last six years that has really been impressive and so they working together with us and also with individual nato allies have been making a difference to hold the line but you continue to during all nato membership is a carrot in front of them without giving them a timetable for it without a timetable it s meaningless as. well let s have a moment to talk about that in two thousand and eight. at the bucharest summit four countries spoke about their aspirations and nato agreed that they would be in the