Boris Johnson is willing to give the green light to more money for defense after being pressured by ministers to increase the budget to deal with Russia’s threat.
The prime minister is expected to announce an additional billion for more equipment as he flies to the NATO summit in Madrid, which begins today.
Johnson has been paving the way for an increase in defense spending, and said yesterday in the UK that “the price of freedom is worth paying” and argued that long-term prosperity is intimately linked to resistance. to Russian aggression.
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said 19 allies had made clear plans to achieve NATO’s goal of spending 2% of GDP on defense by 2024.
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It came when the new head of the army warned that Russia would likely emerge from the war in Ukraine as an “even greater threat to European security than before.”
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