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@lemmy.world
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    1 day 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.

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      21 hours ago

      The USA put Yeltsin in place for political hegemony. We should attack the root cause of the problem - the USA. Warmongers are just lobbyists for lockheed martin. Heartless monsters who gladly send others to the meatgrinder, it’s good for the economy. Do not be deceived

    • P1k1e@lemmy.world
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      1 day ago

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

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        21 hours ago

        Yeah they are all expansionists. They astroturf the lemmyverse like they own the place.