Tag: Deterrence

  • NATO will host the biggest war games since the Cold War FT

    NATO will host the biggest war games since the Cold War FT

    The Steadfast Defender exercise in Germany, Poland and the Baltics will involve about 41,000 soldiers, the agency reports NATO is poised to hold its biggest military exercises since the Cold War era early next year, the Financial Times reported on Monday. The exercises are meant to simulate a potential Russian invasion and are intended to…

  • Turkish President Erdogan meets US counterpart Biden in Vilnius

    Turkish President Erdogan meets US counterpart Biden in Vilnius

    Vilnius [Lithuania]July 12 (ANI): Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday met his US counterpart Joe Biden on the sidelines of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) summit in Vilnius. The Presidency of the Republic of Turkiye tweeted, “President @RTErdogan met US President Joe Biden on the sidelines of the NATO summit in Vilnius.” Before…

  • President Sauli Niinistös spoke to Finland’s new government

    President Sauli Niinistös spoke to Finland’s new government

    President Niinistö admitted that the new government takes office in a particularly challenging time. The war in Ukraine has intensified and threatens the future and security of Europe. As a member of the NATO alliance, Finland must continue to support Ukraine while taking care of the country’s own defense and integrating defense measures into NATO’s…

  • NATO chief visits Trkiye to push for Sweden’s accession

    NATO chief visits Trkiye to push for Sweden’s accession

    OSLO, June 1 (Xinhua) — Jens Stoltenberg, Secretary General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), said Thursday that he is working hard to ensure that Sweden’s accession to the alliance is completed as soon as possible, and that he will soon travel to Turkey to facilitate the process. He spoke at a press conference…

  • Strengthens security: Denmark unveils new foreign policy strategy

    Georgia on our mindsGoing through the report, Russia was mentioned over 50 times and China over 20. But smaller nations were also mentioned, such as closer ties being sought with Moldova and Georgia – two countries that have a desire to join the EU, which Russia considers to be in its sphere of influence. Just…

  • Neighbor of Russia ready to welcome American bases media

    Neighbor of Russia ready to welcome American bases media

    American soldiers may soon be deployed in Finland, claims senior diplomat Helsinki is reportedly already in talks with Washington about a defense cooperation agreement (DCA) that would allow US troops to freely deploy to the newly adopted NATO state, a Finnish foreign official, Mikael Antell, has told Helsingin Sanomat (HS) newspaper. . The outlet reported…

  • Neighbor of Russia ready to welcome US bases – media

    Neighbor of Russia ready to welcome US bases – media

    US troops may soon be allowed to deploy to Finalnd, senior diplomat claims Helsinki is reportedly already in talks with Washington about a defense cooperation agreement (DCA) that would allow US troops to freely deploy to the newly adopted NATO state, a Finnish foreign official, Mikael Antell, has told Helsingin Sanomat (HS) newspaper. . The…

  • Finland is considering allowing US troops the media

    Finland is considering allowing US troops the media

    US soldiers may soon be allowed to deploy to bases in neighboring Russia, a senior diplomat claims Helsinki is reportedly already in talks with Washington about a defense cooperation agreement (DCA) that would allow US troops to freely deploy to the newly adopted NATO state, a Finnish foreign official, Mikael Antell, has told Helsingin Sanomat…

  • HS: Finns and US officials are discussing a defense agreement that would allow us to freely use Finnish soil

    HS: Finns and US officials are discussing a defense agreement that would allow us to freely use Finnish soil

    Mikael AntellThe deputy head of the foreign ministry’s policy department stated to the daily newspaper yesterday that the negotiators have once gone through the agreement “among the allies in a positive and solution-oriented spirit”. Antell, who is responsible for Finland’s negotiations, said that the agreement strengthens Finland’s deterrence and defense capabilities through the presence of…

  • A US B-52 bomber flight was "strategic deterrence"The Finnish Defense Minister says

    A US B-52 bomber flight was "strategic deterrence"The Finnish Defense Minister says

    A US Air Force B-52 bomber flew over the Gulf of Finland on Saturday evening and turned back before the Russian-owned island of Gogland.

  • The game behind the nuclear weapons plan over Sweden

    The game behind the nuclear weapons plan over Sweden

    On September 2, huge fighter jets thunder in over central Stockholm. Everyone’s eyes are directed towards the roar from above. Three Swedish JAS Gripens look small next to the large American bombers flying low over the hulls. The display is part of an exercise aimed at scaring Russia, just enough. The strategy is called deterrence,…

  • The NATO chief says he will increase troops to the east

    The NATO chief says he will increase troops to the east

    According to Stoltenberg, ministers have discussed the future attitude of the organization and how it can increase practical support to Allies by significantly strengthening its presence, capabilities and capabilities. “This means more NATO-led combat forces to strengthen our combat forces in the eastern part of our alliance,” Stoltenberg said. “Increase air, naval and cyber defense,…

  • Negotiations are needed to bring about a ceasefire in Ukraine: France’s Macron

    BUCHAREST, June 15 (Xinhua) – The Ukrainian president will have to negotiate with Russia, and the Europeans will also be present at the negotiating table and provide security guarantees, French President Emmanuel Macron said on Wednesday at a NATO base in southeastern Romania. “We want to build peace, which means that at some point the…

  • US-Danish missile delivery could turn Bornholm into a “military bridgehead”, warns Russian ambassador

    US-Danish missile delivery could turn Bornholm into a “military bridgehead”, warns Russian ambassador

    Vladimir Barbin, the Russian ambassador to Denmark, has warned that Danish-American military activity on Bornholm today risks transforming Denmark’s Baltic Sea island from a “peaceful oasis to a potential military bridgehead”. In a speech to TV2 prior to the arrival of a transport plane loaded with missiles to Bornholm today, Barbin claims that the exercise,…

  • Blinken discusses security, financial assistance with Kuleba in Berlin

    Blinken discusses security, financial assistance with Kuleba in Berlin

    Berlin [Germany]May 15 (ANI): US Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba next to the NATO Foreign Ministers’ meeting in Berlin on Sunday and discussed security and financial assistance to Kyiv. “Met FM @DmytroKuleba before today’s @NATO Foreign Ministers’ meeting to discuss the security and financial assistance that Ukraine needs…

  • Marin: NATO’s decision will happen "within weeks rather than months"

    The Prime Minister of Finland Sanna Marin (SDP) has said that Finland will make a decision on joining NATO within weeks. "I do not give any timetable [for] when we make our decisions. But I think it will happen pretty quickly. In weeks, not months," Marin said in a joint press conference with the Swedish…

  • Russia looks askance at Danish military aircraft during exercise in the Arctic

    Russia looks askance at Danish military aircraft during exercise in the Arctic

    It was not only provocative when Denmark last week sent a military aircraft for exercise inside the Barents Sea in a Russian zone northeast of Norway. It also happened on false premises. This is how it sounds now from Russia’s ambassador to Denmark, Vladimir V. Barbin, who was previously his country’s Arctic ambassador. “Such exercises…