A photo of a television screen shows French President Emmanuel Macron during a televised address to the nation he gave at the Elysee Palace after signing a pension reform in Paris on April 17, 2023. Ludovic Marin | AFP | Getty Images French President Emmanuel Macron has reiterated the possibility of sending troops to Ukraine,…
A JAS 39 Gripen C/D fighter aircraft takes off from Sweden’s Lulea-Kallax Airport March 4, 2024, during the NATO military exercise Nordic Response 24, a Norwegian national exercise conducted in northern Sweden, Norway and Finland with associated airspace and waters . Anders Wiklund | AFP | Getty Images Sweden officially joined NATO as the 32nd…
Turkish President Recep Erdogan speaks to journalists during the final national press conference during the NATO high-level summit at the Litexpo conference center in Vilnius, Lithuania, July 12, 2023. Dominika Zarzycka | Photo only | Getty Images Turkey, along with Hungary, spent almost two years delaying Sweden’s entry into NATO. It has purchased powerful Russian…
Former U.S. President and current Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks to the press at Mar-a-Lago in West Palm Beach, Florida, on February 16, 2024. Joe Raedle | Getty Images News | Getty Images MUNICH, Germany (AP) — NATO members on Saturday mulled a possible U.S. withdrawal from the military alliance if Donald Trump returns…
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg speaks during a press conference on the third day of the annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank on October 11, 2023 in Marrakech, Morocco. Susana Vera | Reuters NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg acknowledged criticism that some members had underfunded the coalition’s defense budget and…
Former US President Donald Trump pictured during a meeting with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg at Winfield House in London on December 3, 2019. NICHOLAS KAMM | AFP | Getty Images Former US leader and presidential candidate Donald Trump stoked the anger of US lawmakers and international leaders after saying he would not protect NATO…
After Donald J. Trump suggested that he had threatened to encourage Russia to attack “criminal” NATO allies, three themes stood out in the response of many Republican officials: expressions of support, aversion, or even cheerful indifference. Republican Party elites are so adept at deflecting even Mr. Trump’s most outrageous statements that they quickly shot them…
Former President Donald J. Trump said Saturday that as president he told leaders of NATO nations he would “encourage” Russia “to do whatever the hell they want” with countries that have the money they want owed to the military, not paid by Alliance. Mr. Trump did not make it clear whether he ever planned to…
