NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg proposed a $100 billion package to ensure military aid to Ukraine for five years. Europe also needs to ensure its own preparedness.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg at a news conference in Brussels on April 3. PARIS — As a parting gift of wisdom to the alliance he has led since 2014, NATO Secretary General Jens StoltenbergIf the idea is workable, it could help Kyiv withstand Russia’s onslaught.
Stoltenberg wants to shift the West’s current, relatively uncoordinated flow of weapons and munitions to NATO’s control to protect Kyiv from “the winds of political change,”. Major issues remain, including whether all 32 NATO member states are onboard — notably Hungary, where Prime Minister Viktor Orban has resisted backing Ukraine.
The peril isn’t lost on Europe’s leaders, yet few are taking the steps to avoid or prepare for it. They call to mind, the likely front line in a Russian attack that could test NATO’s mutual assistance pledge, have undertaken major military buildups. They are the exceptions.Chancellor Olaf Scholz that growing calls for appeasing Russia from his Social Democratic Party — to which the historians also belong — is a “fatal” error, blind to history.
Yet the NATO benchmark to which they aspire — annual military spending equal to 2 percent of economic output — is itself obsolete., drafted by U.S. Gen. Christopher G. Cavoli, the supreme allied commander in Europe, would mean a 50 percent increase in collective defense outlays by the bloc’s European members, alliance officials have told me. That means well over $100 billion more annual spending, a massive fiscal and political lift.
“We are moving in the right direction but too slow and too late,” foreign ministers Radosław Sikorski of Poland and Jan Lipavsky of the Czech Republicas the product of two elements: moral sense and self-interest. In Europe today, the moral resolve of leaders who grasp Moscow’s threat is subverted by the muddy self-interest of politics as usual.
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