In response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, NATO is now planning to make the military alliance establish a permanent presence of troops on its eastern flank.
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said, “What we see now is a new reality, a new normal for European security. Therefore, we have now asked our military commanders to provide options for what we call a reset, a more longer-term adaptation of NATO,” Stoltenberg told The Telegraph this weekend. “I expect that NATO leaders will make decisions on this when they meet in Madrid at the NATO summit in June.”
He added, “NATO needs to adapt to that new reality. And that’s exactly what we are doing,” he said. “NATO is the most successful alliance in history for two reasons. One is that we have been able to unite Europe and North America. The other is that we have been able to change when the world is changing. Now the world is changing, and NATO is changing.”
Both NATO and the United States have already sent numerous weapons—including Javelin missiles, NLAW missiles, Switchblade drones, and other equipment—to Ukraine over the past month and a half.
“Everything Ukraine does with different types of weapons is defensive, it is about defending themselves against the atrocities, against the invasion, against a brutal use of military force against their own country,” he said.
In a recent interview, the NATO Secretary-General also said that he would extend his term as head of the alliance by a year, according to a Reuters report:
Stoltenberg, who recently said he would extend his term as head of the alliance by a year, also said in the interview that decisions on the reset would be made at a NATO summit to be held in Madrid in June.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has triggered Europe’s largest refugee crisis since World War Two and led Western nations to rethink their defense policies.
Sources: The Epoch Times, Reuters, Telegraph
