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\n Over 20 NATO member countries are meeting defence spending targets this year, marking a nearly fourfold increase from 2021 amid heightened concerns over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
\n ADVERTISEMENTA record 23 of NATO’s 32 member nations are hitting the Western military alliance\u2019s defence spending target this year, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said on Monday.The estimated figure represents an almost fourfold increase from 2021 when only six nations achieved the goal. This was before Russian President Vladimir Putin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.\u201cEuropeans are doing more for their collective security than just a few years ago,\u201d Stoltenberg said in a Wilson Center research group speech.After the speech, Stoltenberg met with US President Joe Biden at the White House. The US leader said the alliance has become \u201clarger, stronger and more united than it\u2019s ever been\u201d during Stoltenberg’s tenure.Biden spoke affectionately of Stoltenberg, calling him \u201cpal\u201d and saying he wished that Stoltenberg, who has been NATO’s secretary general since 2014, could serve another term when the current one expires in October.\u201cTogether, we\u2019ve deterred further Russian aggression in Europe,\u201d Biden said. \u201cWe\u2019ve strengthened NATO\u2019s eastern flank ,making it clear that we\u2019ll defend every single inch of NATO territory.\u201dNATO members agreed last year to allocate at least 2% of their GDP to defence, with the surge in spending reflecting concerns about the war in Ukraine.Poland, with over 4%, and tiny Estonia, both of which border Russia, lead ahead of the US this year in the percentage of their GDP spent on defence.Defence spending across European allies and Canada was up nearly 18% this year alone, the biggest increase in decades, according to NATO\u2019s estimated figures released on Monday.Some countries are also concerned about the possible reelection of former President Donald Trump, who has characterised many NATO allies as freeloading on US military spending and has stated on the campaign trail that he would not defend NATO members failing to meet defence spending targets.”Shifting US administrations have had the absolutely valid point to say that US allies are spending too little,\u201d Stoltenberg told reporters. \u201cThe good news is that\u2019s changing.\u201dNATO leaders to meet in Washington next monthStoltenberg’s visit is laying the groundwork for what\u2019s expected to be a pivotal summit of NATO leaders in Washington next month. The mutual defense alliance has grown in strength and size since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine two years ago, with both Sweden and Finland joining.Much of the focus of the summit is expected to address what NATO and NATO member governments can do for Ukraine as it faces unrelenting air and ground attacks from its more powerful neighbour. They so far have resisted Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy\u2019s appeals to take his country into the bloc as long as the war is still on.Stoltenberg pointed to efforts to bolster Ukraine in the meantime. That includes NATO streamlining the eventual membership process for Ukraine, and individual NATO nations providing updated arms and training to Ukraine\u2019s military, including the US giving it F-16s and bringing Ukrainian pilots to the US for training on the advanced aircraft.\u201cThe idea is to move them so close to membership that when the time comes, when there is consensus, they can become a member straight away,\u201d Stoltenberg said.However Russia\u2019s offensive concludes, only taking Ukraine into the alliance will dissuade Putin from trying again in the future to conquer Ukraine, the NATO chief said.\u201cWhen the fighting ends, NATO membership\u201d for Ukraine \u201cassures that the war really ends,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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