According to Bloomberg, the topic will be discussed during the Thursday meeting of NATO defense ministers in Brussels. Details of the plan – in this schedule – they remain unclear for now, but The increase in defense capabilities would apply to the entire continentwith different participation of individual countries.
According to the agency, the ministers are also to approve One of the largest programs for increasing weapons from the Cold Waras part of wider activities for the independence of Europe and Canada from American defense systems. Brussels talks are to prepare the ground for the June NATO summit in the Hague.
Air defense expansion with NATO priority
The Secretary General of the Alliance Mark Rutte stated on Monday in Vilnius that NATO must be ready for a full -size conflict. “We don't wage war, but we also don't live in times of peace,” he said.
Bloomberg emphasizes that the expansion of air defense is one of NATO's priorities – especially in the context of increasingly advanced threats, such as drones, rockets and combat aircraft. Over the past decades of the Alliance, they have limited the development of these systems, focusing on threats from outside Europe, but the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022 changed this strategy.
