As NATO completes 75 years since its formation, Joe Biden announced a massive ramp-up in Ukraine's air defense systems. Founded in 1949, right after the Second World War by 12 nations, today NATO is formed by as many as 32 countries from North America and most of Europe. Biden made the announcement during the NATO summit here in Washington where the inaugural summit was also held.
"The United States will join Germany, the Netherlands, Romania, and Italy to provide Ukraine with additional strategic air defense equipment," Biden said, as he mentioned the already heavy losses Russia suffered, running into hundreds of thousands of casualties before he went on to denounce internal migration caused by the ongoing conflict.
NATO member-country leaders, plus Australia, Japan, New Zealand, and South Korea—some of the military alliance's key partners—will meet for a summit with a far-reaching agenda of threats from Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea. Biden praised NATO's progress on defense spending targets amid efforts to maintain security assistance for Ukraine.
Speaking on the changed dynamics within NATO, he reflected that the alliance is prepared to repel aggressions on land, air, at sea, in cyber, and in space, while most of its members have fulfilled their commitments toward defense spending and many others are well on their way to their targets.
In a Monday op-ed, US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said European nations have taken a more front-row seat in NATO operations—a talking point that, quite differently from reliance in the past on US leadership, has also come amid domestic US debates over how best to fund NATO commitments in a sustainable way.
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