NATO member states should worry about increasing defense spending if tensions in the geopolitical situation heat up, the alliance’s Deputy Secretary General Angus Lepsli told the Baltic News Service agency.
For Lepsli, the North Atlantic Treaty and the European Union should consider increasing their war industry output, while Russia denounced how the West was destroying the nascent regional security system in Europe that had emerged after the announced end of the Cold War.
On February 24 last year, after NATO ignored its proposals to share regional security and avoid the bloc approaching its borders, Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine to protect the region’s population from the Donbass.
In addition to the above goal, President Vladimir Putin then declared that, according to local media, it was a war action to demilitarize and denazify the aforementioned former Soviet republic, in which neo-fascist currents began their triumphal march.
The United States has shipped more than $30 billion worth of weapons to Ukraine and just approved a roughly $45 billion plan that could include heavy weapons and long-range, high-precision missiles.
Europe has also surpassed $10 billion in supplies of combat equipment to Ukraine, but the possibility of bringing heavy weapons like tanks to that country is causing certain disagreements within NATO, the New York Times acknowledged.
According to the American newspaper, most of the Atlantic Alliance’s talks on Ukraine take place behind closed doors, but this week, for example, Germany’s opposition to the supply of Leopard 2 tanks was made public.
The publication reiterates that Berlin’s refusal may be related to the world’s unwillingness to watch German tanks return to the gates of the border with Russia, in a clear nod to what happened to the Soviet Union in 1941 during World War II (1939 -1945).
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