NATO responds to new threat situation

Ahead of the summit in Madrid, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg announces the biggest „general overhaul of the military alliance“ since the end of the Cold War. The number of rapid response forces is to be drastically increased. The adoption of a new strategic concept is planned, in which China is to be mentioned for the first time.

It is to be the most important summit of the military alliance in decades. In view of the threat posed by Russia and the war in Ukraine, NATO wants to position itself significantly better. Nato Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg announced that the number of NRF rapid reaction forces would be expanded from the current 40,000 to 300,000 soldiers. Forget the time when French President Emmanuel Macron certified that NATO was „brain dead“. At the latest, the Russian attack on Ukraine was the electric shock that brought the alliance back to life.

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