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The war has led NATO to re-evaluate security especially on its eastern flank with Russia Germany’s recent announcement of a permanent troop deployment there the first of its kind since the second world war is just one such change his DW’s Terry Schultz Russia’s war on Ukraine made

NATO take another look at Moscow and in the mirror resulting in the biggest reconfiguration of the alliance since the Soviet Union crumbled more than 30 years ago the new plans were approved at NATO’s vilnia Summit in July we took major decisions to adapt our alliance for the future we agreed NATO’s most

Detailed and robust defense plan since the Cold War defense plans that look like those from the Cold War dividing Alliance territory into Regional commands outlining extraordinary operational detail in thousands of Highly classified pages it’s kind of how many ships do you need here how many soldiers do you need there

Then of course you take it down below that and then you get into the real nitty-gritty of how you would move the ships around how you would move the soldiers around how you would resupply in great detail all the sorts of things that you would expect to have in place

Were they ever needed were they ever needed the plans Envision 300,000 troops could move to NATO’s border with Russia within 30 days one big change may seem painfully obvious but wasn’t automatic identifying Russia by name as the alliance’s main adversary any opportunity to not consider Russia as an

Enemy has been lost by what we’ve seen in Ukraine and the Very fact that we’ve written it quite clean you know clearly and it’s being uh it’s being uh used in our documentation this political shift is huge for the alliance finally allowing open strategizing about how to beat its most likely opponent says

Military analyst Alexander melar there is a a much um higher degree of detail that is available for U military planners to um to work with in terms of exercising uh in terms of planning um and and thinking through uh the campaign design despite the political differences among Allied governments that come out

In other places here at NATO’s military headquarters in Mons Belgium Admiral blown says everyone’s on the same page but will that change now that they’ve got 4,000 new pages of plans to implement each Ally will be required to provide specific capabilities equipment troops and to keep them at a high degree

Of Readiness this will be expensive and some governments aren’t yet even close to spending the 2% of GDP on defense that’s now a minimum expectation still Admiral Blount insists the unanimous approval of the plans demonstrates unwavering Unity within NATO we haven’t seen anything but that since Ukraine has

Been been illegally invaded by Russia professor melar says it’s important that the agreement has been formalized in writing on paper you you have that uh that consensus there that that NATO Machinery can can build upon even if in practice he notes there’s still a handful of allies less than fully

Committed to their new responsibilities matar says Russia’s actions are a constant reminder of the risks of not doing so thanks for that report Terry let’s delve a little deeper just how Forward Thinking are NATO’s new military plans this is the biggest reconfiguration that NATO has undertaken

Since the end of the Cold War and the ironic thing about this forward look is that parts of it look very much like cold war thinking in that NATO is again considering that it may have to fight a war with Russia that’s something that fell by the wayside and in decades past

When Russia SE seem to be a more peaceful neighbor to NATO allies but no longer so I think some of our viewers may be surprised that NATO never mentioned Russia as the potential opponent there was always an imaginary country that it was staging these exercises against but now they will

Start to say Russia and they’ve got you know all the examples they need for how Russia fights a war right there alongside uh NATO allies in Ukraine and that’s going to change the way that NATO deploys its resources you’ve now got troops pre-positioned along the Russian border you’ve got more equipment there

And you’ve got what NATO calls regionalization you’ve got uh uh responsibility for these areas delegated to uh countries in the region so that you’re not looking at making plans only from Brussels you’ve got responsibility right there uh on the front line so Terry how prepared is NATO in comparison

To just a couple years ago well just a couple years ago was 2022 and I think everything’s changed since then you know NATO started to take a closer look at uh Russia’s uh challenges after its first invasion of Ukraine in 2014 but it was really this allout assault on Ukraine that focused

Mines now think about it NATO has NATO countries have basically emptied their stock piles to send old equipment to Ukraine that means they’re ordering new equipment and that means they’ll have upgraded uh capabilities uh should it become necessary to use it uh against an opponent so in that sense they’ve

They’ve really uh upgraded their their stockpiles and their arsenals um at the same time they’ve upgraded their thinking and I think that’s probably been the most important shift uh no everyone you know has to understand that they don’t know what the kremlin’s going to do and and possibly deterrence won’t

Work anymore and you may again have to consider fighting a land war with Russia but Terry talking about thinking we keep hearing about Ukraine fatigue how could that change things well that could change things a lot because as any of the Baltic states and the other Frontline NATO allies will

Tell you uh they are very much aware that if Russia is allowed to win in Ukraine it’s not going to stop there it’s going to be embolden and they very much fear that they will be next so this is why everyone here at NATO is also watching what happens in Washington with

A lot of concern the fact that that the Biden Administration is warning that if Congress doesn’t pass this next trunch of 18 Ukraine there’s $61 billion or something like that waiting for Congressional approval uh that they’re very worried and and uh Ukraine knows and NATO allies know that without

Support from the United States it will be very difficult for Europe to fill that Gap European governments are going to have to be very much looking at how they can dig deeper too to possibly fill these gaps in helping Ukraine DW’s Terry Schulz

The war in Ukraine has led NATO to re-evaluate security, especially on its eastern flank with Russia. Germany’s recent announcement of a permanent troop deployment there – the first of its kind since the second world war – is just one such change.

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36 comments

  3. The Russians can't beat Ukraine they'd be beaten in days by NATO which is a 32 nation alliance, with more men and better ships, aircraft and tanks, it's not a genuine worry, but we need to rearm immediately, I've been saying so for years.

  7. I love my country but am frustrated to realize it traffics in arms while choosing to outsource more noble professions like manufacturing. All in the name of naked profit at the cost of soul and the people themselves.

  9. Russia will join with it friends Iran, china and North Korea so war will be on nuclear weapons tactics Europe will be completely down 👇👇👇, Europe lack leader all they are been brain washed by USA instead of working for their country interest now suposer USA interest

  13. Зато теперь вы сделали то, чем мы говорим 30 лет, вы показали для чего на самом деле создавалось нато. Браво, вы обманывали весь мир 30 лет! Своими действиями, вы вызываете жалость у Россиян. Бедные европейские страны, как же Вам не везёт на руководителей… жалкое зрелище. Россия напала бла бла бла, вы посмотрите на карту расширения нато, Россия Вам ответила только на последней линии, только на Украине и Грузии. Дальше уже некуда было отступать России. Вы просто загнали нас в угол, своей бесчеловечной агрессией и теперь рассказываете про агрессию России. Да вы просто лжецы, вот вы все кто даёт интервью, говорит о агрессии России, когда придёте домой, скажите своим детям какую ложь вы принесли миру сегодня. Противные, озлобленные, жалкие европейские руководители

  14. With Russia out of missiles and the Leopards and F-16s arriving in Ukraine, surely DW continues to believe in the victory. Germany and US will not miss at all the money as they can just print it with zero effect on their citizens. Plus it enriches and entrenches their own corrupt government officials and weapons company lobbyists.

  16. That's what they did at the beginning of the Ukraine war. Why such move if ally Ukraine is winning as has been reported throughout this war. Why fighting Russia which has been weaker by Nato's proxy war.?

  20. The State of Texas is rearming and this is really bad news. If one has studied American history they had a civil war between the South and North. The State of Texas wanted to separate under General Robert Lee from the United States and he was defeated. The State of Texas has the GDP and military strength of Germany today. The American government is eventually going to run out of money and this is where Texas is going to setup new borders and enforce them with the Texas military. What I am saying is the United States is coming to an end like the Roman Empire. I don’t know when but it’s certainly going to happen. 😉

  25. 😂😂😂so NATO can't defeat shepherds with hunting rifles in sandals….
    hollywood army with hollywood weapons..
    Vietnam Korea Serbia Afghanistan Ukraine…
    for the first time in history they had Ukrainian infantry, 2 million of them, who are a hundred times better than NATO soldiers…
    after all, the same blood, gene courage as the Russians….
    all NATO weapons in the world, ammunition, money, logistics, satellites, operators, special forces…
    and another fiasco…
    NATO can only defeat the Faroe Islands on the condition that Ukraine joins NATO😂😂😂

  27. But,
    There is NOT a Russia threat .
    All of the problems began with NATO disires for extention east .
    What NATO doing in the Russians front yard.?

  35. C'mon Putler and his goons created this Ukraine problem to distract its population from extreme domestic corruption because they know this is not sustainable and eating Russia from inside out. Pu knows that if not today then tomorrow Russian people are gonna wake up and realize how pathetic Russia became under his 24 years of autocratic regime. Therefore he needed to distract his deep hibernating people from rotten system of his own creation and somehow compensate it with "conquered land" to go into history as Peter the Great-#2. What do we have instead: Russian army once feared and considered one of the top army in the world suddenly became an army on paper now. Russia does not produce anything industrial importance but raw material with Gas and Oil which it can't keep up under western sanctions. It currently became China's "slave" in pretty much everything. Nukes some say, absolutely, but Pu and his goons know that to use Nukes would be – MAD (Mutual Assured Destruction) which they would not dare to use because all Russian elite kids and relatives are located in Western countries. So instead of playing guessing game Ukraine should be rewarded with full NATO support because if there was no Ukraine Russia would still be feared as "uncontrolled pariah state" with fearful and so called "scary #2 army in the world". In the word of late senator McCain "Russia is a gas station masquerading as a country."

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