Speaking in Romania on Monday ahead of a two-day NATO summit, Stoltenberg told reporters that Europe is facing the "greatest security crisis in a generation," stressing the need to bolster areas of "strategic importance" in retaliation for Moscow's ongoing offensive.
Comment: Indeed Europe is facing a number of serious crises - including food and energy shortages, as well as citizen unrest.
"In response to Russia's aggression, NATO is reinforcing its presence from the Baltic to the Black Sea. We have set up new battlegroups, including the one led by France here in Romania," he said. "Fighter jets from Canada also help to keep your skies safe and US Patriot missiles boost your defenses. This sends a clear message that NATO is here. We will do what is necessary to protect and defend all allies."
Comment: What's the message exactly? That NATO is willing to sacrifice European stability and impoverish its citizens to fund the US' failing proxy war?
Asked about when NATO hopefuls Sweden and Finland might be admitted into the alliance, Stoltenberg said he is "confident" the bloc's 30 members will eventually approve their applications, but could not say when that would happen, as Turkey and Hungary have yet to ratify the decision. However, he noted the two Nordic states would help to "reinforce the Eastern flank, especially the Baltics," given their "well-trained and well-equipped high-end military capabilities."
A NATO foreign ministers' meeting will kick off in Bucharest on Tuesday, where Stoltenberg said members will "address ways to step up our support for Ukraine." He hailed Romania's "significant military assistance" to Kiev, claiming it is "in our own security interest" to back Ukrainian forces, while insisting: "We cannot let [Russian President Vladimir] Putin win."
Officials will also discuss the provision of new air defense systems to Ukraine, training soldiers on how to use them, as well as resupplying spare parts and ammunition for weapons already on the battlefield, the NATO chief added.
Kiev has received a long list of heavy weaponry from Western allies, with the United States alone approving more than $19 billion in direct military aid since late February, including dozens of long-range High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS), more than 46,000 anti-armor platforms, and nearly 200 artillery pieces. Washington and its partners have vowed to continue such assistance, despite reports that a majority of NATO states have severely depleted their weapons and ammunition stocks after countless arms transfers to Ukraine.
Reader Comments
Everything is in their favor currently St. George’s that is.
Pride before the fall.
And a giant arms business will suddenly stop.
And a huge money laundering business in the Khazarian homeland will come to a grinding halt.
We have to understand NATO does not follow international law or even its own rules; it is deeply involved with the Ukraine conflict already. Russia has made the bioweapons labs, the money laundering, the child organ harvesting, the child trafficking, NATO's involvement all visible.
By the way, I think the FTX fallout will be huge - much worse than currently estimated. As I heard, some deep state factions even began to publish Epstein/Maxwell customer names to distract from the crypto fraud ...
That is why humans are supposedly smarter than frogs, but one could beg to differ I reckon.......
NATO is a pointless entity about to be a bad idea proven wrong seems likely and good on that because NATO is not defensive, but rather it has turned into an offensive entity in need of comeuppance permanent. I suspect most folks on Eastern Europe would be fine with that conclusion of affairs and no nuclear weapons are needed to send the message to NATO as it makes itself extinct by virtue of denying its own stated purpose.....
If an entity acts opposite how it defined itself, then obviously, the entities days are numbered and it don't take a rocket scientist to figure this - tis nothing but common sense....and really one lie too many is one lie too much.
Ken
Heaven can shove it up heaven's ass if that is what heaven is - ain't no heaven in my mind.
In heaven, rumor I heard is lies are not tolerated. Lies and obfuscation both, and heaven's latest imposter will be exposed and terminated per heaven policy is the other rumor I heard.
Time will tell.
just like the one from the latest tom cruise movie... only 1980's vintage, yes, really.
to set the "we mean business" tone, just one cf-18 is being sent - flown by the Ghost of Baguette-ville, the Ghost of Cold Lake has coffid.
Do you know if that is true?
Well seems as if the proof is in the pudding and soon enough just like the pipelines destroyed by terrorist we will all know who has the best missiles discrete and who rues the day they tried to play game with forces they didn't realize were stronger than they could imagine. Sort of like spoiled rotten entitled brats eventually meet their match who says to them.... get your house in order.
although, i chuckled though the other day when reading how the russian ambassador to canada was summoned by the libtard club in ottawa - poor guy, it must have been very difficult to restrain himself from gut busting laughter for however long the meeting lasted.
- would have been entertaining being a fly on the wall.