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During an interview with “PBS NewsHour” Foreign Affairs and Defense Correspondent Nick Schifrin that took place over the weekend and aired on Monday, Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski stated that there are some NATO members that “are behind the curve”

During an interview with “PBS NewsHour” Foreign Affairs and Defense Correspondent Nick Schifrin aired on Friday, Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas responded to 2024 Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump’s comments about NATO by stating that while “all these statements

Speculation on what former President Donald Trump may do with NATO should he be reelected this November is running rampant as he appears poised to become the Republican nominee, and as President Joe Biden’s poll numbers hit record lows.

Ukraine is signing bilateral defence deals with France and Germany on Friday, cited as creating a “NATO light” by the press. 

Estonia´s prime minister on a wanted list in Russia because of her efforts to remove Soviet-era World War II monuments in the NATO nation.

European Union may need to develop its own nuclear deterrent “on the way to a European army” a top German MEP says.

Alyssa Farah Griffin told her co-host Monday on ABC’s “The View” that former President Donald Trump’s comments on NATO mean “he would want World War III to happen.”

The leaders of Germany and Denmark joined in a ground-breaking ceremony for a new ammunition factory on Monday.

“Many European leaders concede he basically has a point”, The Times said in a rare legacy media concession to Trump over his NATO comments.

Top Eurocrat lashes out at Donald Trump’s comments on defence, despite his own country being the worst-performing major NATO state.

The West needs to ramp up weapons production as the conflict with Russia could last “decades”, NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg said.

War with NATO will bring “all humanity to the brink of destruction” and consequently the Russian Federation is not interested, Putin asserted. 

Russian President Vladimir Putin told Tucker Carlson he asked U.S. President Bill Clinton in 2000 if Russia could join NATO.

A UK aircraft carrier slotted to lead the largest post-Cold War NATO exercises will not set sail after a problem with its propeller was found.

Nearly half of the German public are living in fear of a potential attack from Russia, a survey published this week found.

French President Emmanuel Macron travelled to Sweden on Tuesday for a two-day state visit while farmer protests continue at home.

Top NATO general warns lessons of Ukraine show Europe its interior cities cannot expect to be left untouched if Russia and Alliance fight. 

The United States is reportedly planning on stationing nuclear weapons in the United Kingdom amid escalating tensions with Russia.

The Biden administration has approved the sale of F-16 fighter jets to Turkey after Ankara ratified Sweden’s membership in NATO.

Contrary to alarming claims by top military officers, there is no “direct or imminent” threat to NATO nations, the alliance’s head has said.

NATO signed for tens of thousands of artillery rounds to replenish the dwindling stocks as members supply ammunition to Ukraine.

Germany’s defence minister presented a less alarmist take on the Russian threat, saying an attack on NATO is not likely at the moment.

If the public starts ‘panic-buying’ radios, torches, and water to “survive the first 36 hours” then “that’s great”, NATO military chief said. 

Steadfast Defender 24 “will show that NATO can conduct and sustain complex multi-domain operations over several months”.

The time has come for public and private actors in the West to prepare for an era in which anything could happen at any time, including fighting a war, a top NATO military official said Wednesday.

West no longer post-Cold War and is in a new “pre-war” era with limited time left to prepare for and deter future conflicts, the UK says.

Leaked German military documents have warned of a full-blown war between Russia and NATO with hundreds of thousands of troops deployed.

If you think the Pentagon’s psychological operations unit once floated the notion of turning singer Taylor Swift into an asset for psyops then you’d be wrong. No less an authority than the Department of Defense says so.

Zelensky has arrived in Latvia, the final stop on his Baltic mini-tour as he attempts to drum up further support and missiles.

NATO allies Turkey and the UK are at odds after the former denied permission for two ex-Royal Navy minehunters donated to Ukraine to pass through its waters on the way to the Black Sea.

West too fragmented, too slow, and will be attacked by Putin’s Russia if it doesn’t do more to help Ukraine, their foreign minister says.

Economist warns Western fight against inflation faces a serious knockback as Iran-backed attacks set to send the cost of imports spiraling. 

President Recep Erdogan linked the Nordic country´s admission on U.S. approval of Turkey’s request to purchase F-16 fighter jets.

Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022, and since then only one thing has been certain: the rest of Europe is desperate to build military muscle as soon as possible to help counter any further predatory moves by Moscow.

Ukraine has blamed a “shortfall in foreign assistance” as it suffers a shortage of munitions, forcing it to make operations “smaller”.

The British Army is now the smallest it has been in 200 years while in Germany the defence minister speaks of bringing back conscription.