‘Catastrophic’ budget increase will destroy NATO – Lavrov

Federaţia Rusă

The bloc’s members have recently pledged to meet a defense spending target of 5% of GDP The results of NATO countries hiking military budgets will be “catastrophic” and lead to the bloc’s collapse, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Monday. His remarks mirrored Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski’s earlier suggestion that a boost in Moscow’s defense spending could trigger the fall of the government.  At NATO’s most recent summit last month in the Hague, member states committed

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