UK to Slash ‘Net Zero’ Spending to Boost Defence: Report
UK Govt has long talked a big game on defence but actual priorities have always been elsewhere. But now, it is claimed Net Zero may face the chop to pay for arms.

UK Govt has long talked a big game on defence but actual priorities have always been elsewhere. But now, it is claimed Net Zero may face the chop to pay for arms.

NATO could be more effective by supporting “strong American leadership” in its efforts to bring peace, Ana Birchall, former Deputy Prime Minister of Romania, said during an appearance on Breitbart News Saturday.

Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau hit back Saturday after former Obama ambassador Ivo Daalder criticized Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s foreign travel.

Britain’s military chief has said he has “confidence” in the security of bases in the UK after a fortnight of arrests.

Counter terrorism police investigating after two Latvians allegedly broken into major military intelligence station in England overnight.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz arrived in Kyiv Sunday in a show of support as Russia escalated its attacks on Ukrainian cities.

Latvians are electing a new parliament on Saturday as pro-Ukraine Prime Minister Andris Kulbergs seeks a full term. The vote comes as the small republic on NATO’s eastern flank contends with growing concern about potential Russian aggression.

During an interview with Bloomberg on Thursday, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said that Europe not building refineries and closing them down creates a vulnerability because if Russia attacked a NATO nation, there would be a large need for oil
National security experts are pointing to a series of military, economic, technological, and diplomatic moves by President Donald Trump’s administration that they say have put the United States in a stronger position in its strategic competition with China as Washington prepares for another meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping.

President Donald Trump has signed an agreement with Denmark and Greenland aimed at strengthening Arctic and North Atlantic security, easing tensions over his repeated calls for Greenland to become part of the United States.

Denmark’s government was cautiously optimistic on Saturday about Donald Trump’s announcement of a deal on Greenland to bolster U.S. military presence on the island.

Controlling the sea is “existential” to Britain and the country needs “a new Atlantic fleet” to be in with a hope of survival.

The EU should have its own parallel NATO-like defence structures — albeit one without America — President Ursula von der Leyen said.

A Ukraine war drone is believed to have been shot down over NATO ally Lithuania for the first time after it entered from Belarus overnight.

Reuters on Thursday reported some previously secret details of Russia’s failed exercise in Arctic sabotage in April, including U.S. involvement in helping the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) break up an ominous Russian training exercise with a “secret weapon” designed to destroy undersea cables.

Norway govt revealed tZelensky had a close-shave with a Russian drone on Tuesday, a statement that Kyiv later moved to deny.

The British Army will reportedly halt “non-essential” training exercises amid a budget crunch, while the government faces calls to cut welfare spending to meet the nation’s defence needs.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan insisted on Wednesday that Turkey can still have friendly relations with the West, even as he seeks to join the anti-Western Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) and form a security bloc with China and Russia.

More than 2,000 people including volunteers and students are taking part in the biggest civil defense exercise in Europe since the end of World War II.

President Aleksandar Vucic of Serbia told Breitbart News exclusively that he and everyone in Serbia and Eastern Europe fears what may happen to Christians and Serbs in Kosovo after the removal of troops guarding a bridge, and that he is calling on Washington and NATO to step in to help fix the situation before things spiral out of control.

Israel and Greece sealed a historic $3.5 billion defense agreement Monday that will see Jerusalem build Athens a complete multi-layered air defense network, significantly expanding the two countries’ strategic partnership amid growing security challenges in the Eastern Mediterranean.

A Hungarian military pilot ejected safely when his fighter jet crashed on Monday, Prime Minister Péter Magyar said.

Burnham made his first foreign visit where he handed over blueprints to an advanced Anglo-French missile, so Ukraine can build their own.

Iranian officials and state media mocked President Donald Trump this week for switching planes during his trip to Turkey last month because the Secret Service was concerned about an assassination threat from Iran.

A drone entered Bulgarian airspace on Saturday and exploded close to an international gas pipeline shortly after crossing the border from Romania.

Reform UK’s finance spokesman Robert Jenrick met with U.S. Vice President JD Vance in Washington on Friday.

Belgian prosecutors this week announced the arrest of a Canadian intern for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) who was accused of espionage.

ATHENS, Greece — Top U.S. and European officials convened earlier this year here to chart a path forward on key defense objectives in a world filled with growing threats to western civilization at the Athens Defense Summit.

A Russian ballistic missile and drone barrage across Ukraine overnight killed at least eight civilians, including children, and injured 50+.

The UK is seeking to build “at least six new munitions and energetics factories” after Ukraine showed how fast ammunition is used.

Romania shot down a suspected Russian drone after it crossed into its airspace on Sunday – the third such incursion in three days in the Eastern European nation that’s both a European Union and a NATO member, the country’s president said.

A €920 million program to rebuild Romania’s navy sits frozen at a silent, bankrupt Black Sea shipyard where roughly 1,000 workers have been let go, and the country’s own economy minister says a Dutch creditor, not the Romanian state, now controls what happens next, days before a second auction Wednesday.

NATO has shot down what is thought to be a Russian drone over Romanian airspace for the first time after F-16s were deployed to intercept.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky spoke Wednesday with President Donald Trump’s envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner about how to resume diplomatic efforts to end Russia’s war against Ukraine, according to a report Wednesday.

Bulgaria’s Parliament on backed a proposal to allow the U.S. military to use an air base in the Balkan country to support U.S. operations.

The new government must “prioritise” funding nuclear submarines being built with the U.S. and Australia, the U.S. Ambassador told PM Burnham.

Germany has sealed a deal to buy an unspecified amount of long-range Tomahawk cruise missiles from the United States, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz confirmed Thursday.

President Donald Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One that Spain “came back all the way” and agreed to boost NATO payments after he ordered a U.S. trade embargo with the European country over its reluctance to contribute more to the organization.

Wednesday on MS NOW’s “The Last Word,” Rep. Madeleine Dean (D-PA) made the apparently newsworthy claim that President Donald Trump had no talent, credibility or taste.
Wednesday on MS NOW’s “The Moment,” former CIA Director Leon Panetta said President Donald Trump was hiding something about switching planes for his flight back from the NATO Summit in Turkey.