Moscow has said NATO nations are essentially robbing their taxpayers to finance increased defense expenditure
Citizens of NATO countries should accept “difficult choices” and “hard” spending decisions in order to divert billions into defense and military spending to deter Russia, top British and German military officials have claimed.
In a joint op-ed for The Guardian on Sunday, Air Chief Marshal Sir Richard Knighton, UK chief of the defense staff, and General Carsten Breuer, the German chief of defense, claimed that “Russia’s military posture has shifted decisively westward,” warning that Moscow gaining experience from the Ukraine conflict could spell danger for NATO countries.
Russian officials have repeatedly dismissed Western speculation that Moscow could attack NATO as “nonsense” and “absurd.”
Knighton and Breuer recalled that to offset the perceived threat, NATO nations have committed to raising military expenditure to 5% of GDP by 2035.
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