Summary

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte called for greater support for Ukraine and condemned Russia for escalating the war by deploying North Korean troops, Iranian drones, and Chinese dual-use goods.

Speaking in Greece, Rutte praised Greek contributions, including weapons, ammunition, and F-16 pilot training, while urging NATO allies to boost defense investments.

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis highlighted Greece’s high defense spending and pushed for EU budget rule changes to allow for increased military funding.

Rutte’s visit faced protests in Athens, with demonstrators opposing NATO’s role and calling for investments in public services instead.

  • RubberDuck
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    34 hours ago

    To the anti war people, Russias not stopping until they are stopped.

    To the EU, not our problem people… If this snowball keeps rolling the cost of housing refugees from Putin’s next wars will grow exponentially until we need to also start paying with bodies.

    To the American isolationists, your country played hegemon and rattled this cage for decades now, tucking your tail and run, letting everyone fend for themselves and clean up your mess… is what caused 9/11… fuck over enough people and those chickens will come home to roost again. If you burn all your allies… their intell will be unavailable.

    • @P1k1e
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      33 hours ago

      I haven’t looked but I dbout there’s a lot of American isolationists on Lemmy

  • Jimmybander
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    119 hours ago

    Deploy your troops inside Ukraine. That should stop the Russian advance.

  • @eran_morad
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    99 hours ago

    No doubt. But it isn’t going to be easy with Putin’s bitch in the WH.

    • @Gradually_Adjusting
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      45 hours ago

      Nothing worth doing is easy. Preventing a bloody realignment of global hegemony won’t be easy.

  • Justin
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    38 hours ago

    people don’t want to see Russia annex Ukraine, but then they protest the one thing keeping Ukraine alive. 😕

    • @Visstix
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      138 hours ago

      I don’t think those are the same people.