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Truthout is an indispensable resource for activists, movement leaders and workers everywhere. Please make this work possible with a quick donation. At the NATO summit in the Hague, almost all European nations reached an agreement to raise military spending to 5% of each county’s GDP. This comes as President Trump said the U.S. would not...
Nato’s secretary-general Mark Rutte appeared to approve of the language previously used by the US president about Israel and Iran. During a press briefing in the Netherlands, Rutte and Trump discussed the conflict between the two countries. Referencing Trump’s use of an expletive on Tuesday, Rutte said: “And then daddy has to sometimes use strong...
Paul Kirby Europe digital editor JOHN THYS/AFP The US president (L) has been pushing for Nato allies to “equalise” their defence spending for some time Nato leaders are meeting in The Hague to decide on ramping up defence spending to 5% of their countries’ economic output, following months of pressure from US President Donald Trump....
Big old meeting planned at The Hague for all the NATO mucky mucks got off to a late start for them and an embarrassing one for their European counterparts. Everyone was landing at Schiphol, the airport in Amsterdam. The airport is feeling its oats about the incoming bigwigs. They sure seemed stoked to have this...
Trump’s message to Israel and Iran on the way to the Nato summit. Read full article at source...
BBC Nato leaders including President Trump and Prime Minister Keir Starmer are meeting to agree a big increase in defence spending, but nearly a third of the alliance’s members have not reached the existing spending target. The new target will be to spend 5% of the size of their economies, measured by GDP, on “core...
Laura Gozzi & Paul Kirby BBC News Reuters Security is tight at the Nato summit – President Trump’s first since 2019 German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has warned that Russia’s president understands only the language of force and that Tuesday’s “historic” Nato summit in The Hague will aim to ensure peace in Europe for generations to...
BBC As the world holds its breath to see what happens next after the US launched direct attacks on Iran’s nuclear sites, US President Donald Trump is expected in the Netherlands on Tuesday for a Nato summit. This will be Trump’s first Nato meeting since being re-elected. In the past, he’s made angry comments about...
Mark Rutte is determined to give Donald Trump a win at the forthcoming Nato summit. The alliance’s secretary general wants to avoid the scenes of 2016 when, while in his first term, the US president berated European allies for not spending enough on defence and taking advantage of the American taxpayer. Trump views relationships, even...
Trump didn’t really turn his back on NATO, but he rightly decided not to let Europeans take the lead on NATO policies while simultaneously weakening their own militaries. Ever since the end of the Cold War, the United States has tolerated the systematic demilitarization of NATO countries. When Russian tanks were trained on Germany, that...
Members of the Western alliance Nato need to prepare for a possible attack from Russia within the next four years, according to Germany’s chief of defence. General Carsten Breuer told the BBC that Russia was producing hundreds of tanks a year, many of which could be used for an attack on Nato Baltic state members...
Two Russian aircraft flying close to Nato airspace were detected by British fighter jets in separate incidents earlier this week, the UK’s Ministry of Defence has said. A pair of RAF Typhoons were scrambled to intercept a Russian Ilyushin Il-20M “Coot-A” intelligence aircraft over the Baltic Sea on 15 April, while another two Typhoons intercepted...
Remember those plucky Kurdish forces who so heroically defended the Syrian city of Kobane from Isis? They risk being wiped out by Nato. The autonomous Kurdish region of Rojava in Northeast Syria, which includes Kobane, faces invasion. A Nato army is amassing on the border, marshaling all the overwhelming firepower and high-tech equipment that only...
“President Trump’s plans for US imperialism include the destruction of the Palestinian community in Gaza, in collaboration with Israel, as Britain and other NATO members do nothing to stop and actively support this genocide”, Georgina Andrews told the Communist Party’s Political Committee on Tuesday evening (28 January 2025). She said the US president and...