The German government plans to make good on Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s promise to accelerate military spending in the face of the threat from Russia to its east, and will increase its military spending from €95 billion in 2025 to €162 billion by 2029.
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said Monday that his military will transition to “war-fighting readiness” amid new threats to Europe and said his goal will be to accelerate U.K.’s military buildup, so it becomes a “battle-ready, armor-clad nation with the strongest alliances and the most advanced capabilities equipped for the decades to come.”
As we had forecast, the EU and U.K. would ramp up the Ukraine War.
Ukraine carried out a major drone operation on Russian airfields on Sunday in an attack codenamed Spiderweb, in what some pro-Russian bloggers called Moscow’s “Pearl Harbor.”
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Berlin last week and the two spoke about how Germany plans to help Kyiv ramp up its war against Russia by pumping Ukraine with €5 billion in new weapons while forming a joint effort to produce long-range weapons.
U.S. President Donald Trump reportedly told European allies that Russia and Ukraine will have to sort out their problems on their own after failed attempts to strike a deal to end the war that has been raging for over three years.
Russia’s Defense Ministry said last week that it shot down 485 drones launched from Ukraine in a two-day span that began on Tuesday evening and spanned across 14 regions.
On 7 January, weeks before U.S. President Donald Trump was sworn in, he told a press briefing that NATO countries were not paying their fair share for defense and floated the idea that Washington would not abide by its treaty obligations if these allies did not pump up their military spending.
On 12 February 2025, President Donald Trump held a phone conversation with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin that gave hope that the new U.S. leader was taking the initiative to end the Ukraine War.
U.S. President Donald Trump, who promised to end the Ukraine War within 24 hours of taking office, said last week that “nothing’s going to happen” until he meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin and the two can discuss the deal face-to-face.