Mark Rutte, the Head of NATO, said in an interview last week with the Financial Times that companies in the U.S. have been benefiting financially from Europe’s rearmament and that there was a “total order book now of $300 billion outstanding of European and Canadian sales from the U.S. over the next couple of years” that supports nearly 200,000 jobs in the country.
President Donald Trump is expected to join NATO members during a summit this week in Ankara and confirm Washington’s commitment to Article 5 of the alliance’s mandate, which loosely means that an attack on one member is an attack on all.
Kenyan President William Ruto’s government last week ordered sections of Nairobi, the country’s capital, to be locked down in hopes of stopping Gen Z protests.
Mark Rutte, the secretary-general of NATO, said last week that alliance members helped the U.S. carry out its illegal war of aggression against Iran by allowing the Pentagon to use military bases across Europe, despite President Donald Trump’s claims that Washington was abandoned by the military alliance during the war. The Financial Times, citing an......
President Donald Trump said in a summit in France earlier this month that he was impressed by Ukraine’s ability to inflict damage on soft targets in Russia, which prompted the Kremlin to wonder how sincere the White House is about ending the war, according to a report.
The Iran and Ukraine wars have been beneficial to startups in the defense-tech sector that have benefited from $12.3 billion from venture capital firms since the start of the year, which the Financial Times noted eclipsed the $9.95 billion raised all last year.
Crimea declared a state of emergency last week after suffering weeks of drone and missile strikes carried out by the Ukrainian military, which appeared to be opening a new front in the war and is seen as a potential Russian vulnerability.
Ukraine has been carrying out attacks on Russian energy infrastructure across the country, and the level of disruption “is unprecedented in the history of the Russia-Ukraine” war, the International Energy Agency said, according to a report Monday in The Wall Street Journal.
The swift militarization of European countries has led to a recent surge in stock prices tied to defense manufacturers as governments vowed to increase military spending by billions of dollars because of what they determined to be the threat of invasion by Russia.
The Ukrainian military last week launched its biggest drone attack on Moscow since the start of the war in February 2022 to show the Russians that it is gaining more of an ability to strike the country’s decision-making centers as the war shows no end in sight.