At the World Economic Forum in Davos, NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte said that Donald Trump’s criticism of Europe was appropriate: the US President accused him of low defence spending. "[Trump] is right, the problem is not the United States, but Europe," Rutte said in a debate about the situation in Ukraine. The former Dutch prime minister says that many European countries, including his government in the past, have failed to meet the NATO target of 2% of GDP for military spending. According to Rutt, although spending has increased in recent years, it is not enough to deal with alleged long-term threats, highlighting Russia’s growing aggressiveness.
Richard Grenelle, Trump’s ally and presidential delegate for “special missions”, questioned the financial commitment of European countries, after which the aforementioned statements came. Grenelle stressed that it is not feasible for Ukraine to join NATO as long as the current member states do not meet their economic commitments. "Americans cannot be asked to continue to fund collective defense when others do not provide what is necessary," he argued. Ukraine, which wants to join the Atlantic Alliance, meanwhile, continues to face military aggression from Russia, but depends on international support.
For his part, Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo has urged NATO members to "avoid internal hostilities and focus on the external threat represented by Russia." His words were clear: "The enemy is Vladimir Putin. We need unity, not pointing fingers within the alliance." The President of Ukraine, Volodimir Zelenski, also visited Davos and proclaimed that Europe must assume "greater responsibilities".
Vietnam, February 7, 1965. The U.S. Air Force first used napalma against the civilian population. It was not the first time that gelatinous gasoline was used. It began to be launched with bombs during World War II and, in Vietnam itself, it was used during the Indochina War in... [+]
We are in the midst of a world imperialist offensive led by the Western bourgeoisie. The form that the imperialist offensive has taken is that of war, with all its variants: economic war, cognitive and cultural war, lawfarr; and, of course, military war. Western imperialism has... [+]
Year of War, year of lie!
That is what the phrase says, and that is what reality confirms.
Given the situation of war in the world and in Europe, its constant upturn and the possible consequences that this has had and will have in Euskal Herria, last December several citizens... [+]
Greece 1975. The country began the year as a republic, three weeks earlier, in the referendum on 8 December 1974, after the citizens decided on the end of the monarchy.
A decade earlier, in 1964, when King Paul I died, his son Constantine took the throne at the age of 23.
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On 26 December, during an air strike, the Israeli Army killed five Palestinian journalists trying to reach the city. They killed 130 Palestinian journalists. This news has reminded me of a couple of things, the first, the persecution of true journalists in any part of the world,... [+]
The Centre Tricontinental has described the historical resistance of the Congolese in the dossier The Congolese Fight for Their Own Wealth (the Congolese people struggle for their wealth) (July 2024, No. 77). During the colonialism, the panic among the peasants by the Force... [+]
On November 25, International Day against Male Violence, the Steilas Feminist Union Feminist Secretariat has published a poster: Our body is a battlefield, and all the schools in Hego Euskal Herria have received it. We wish to denounce the violence suffered by women and children... [+]
“The time has come for courageous, comprehensive and noble proposals (…) for Euskal Herria to re-enter the world’s revolts,” said friend Hartu López Arana in her opinion article “For an effective aggression” published in ARGIA magazine in July 2018. Six years have... [+]
Japan, 6 and 9 August 1945, the United States launched an atomic bomb causing tens of thousands of deaths in Hiroshima and Nagasaki; although there are no precise figures, the most cautious estimates indicate that at least 210,000 people died at the end of that year. But in... [+]