“During the Cold War, Europeans spent far more than 3 percent of their GDP on defense,” the former Dutch PM said. In the early 1980s, before the collapse of the Soviet Union, NATO's European members ...

The head of Nato has said it is time to "shift to a wartime mindset", as he warned the military alliance's members were not spending enough to prepare for the threat of a future conflict with Russia.

Mark Rutte, the secretary general of the organisation, said NATO members had spent more than 3% of GDP on defence during the Cold War and argued future spending would have to be much higher than ...

Britain and other members of Nato have been urged to shift to a ... Considering that during the Cold War, Europeans spent more than 3% of GDP on defence, Rutte said that much more would be ...

NATO stockpiles and defense manufacturing capacity had already dwindled after the end of the Cold War: providing a steady supply of armaments to Ukraine while replenishing their stockpiles has ...

Britain and other members of Nato have been urged to shift to a ... Considering that during the Cold War, Europeans spent more than 3% of GDP on defence, Rutte said that much more would be ...

While ostensibly a war over territorial expansion and ethnic sovereignty, the violence between Moscow and Kyiv has grown into a referendum of sorts on NATO and the state of post-Cold War geopolitics.

“During the Cold War, Europeans spent far more than 3% of their GDP on defense,” Rutte said. “We are going to need a lot more than 2%,” he added. NATO members are grappling with renewed ...

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Ukraine not insisting on NATO membership during war, but it remains our strategic goal – Ukraine's foreign minister Ukrainska Pravda Wed, December 4, 2024 at 10:57 AM UTC ...

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha has stated that Ukraine is not pushing for NATO membership during the war, taking into account the stance of certain member states. Source: correspondent from ...