{"id":1131431,"date":"2026-08-05T07:42:25","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T07:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1131431\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T07:42:25","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T07:42:25","slug":"post-war-ukraine-holds-the-key-to-european-defence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1131431\/","title":{"rendered":"Post-war Ukraine Holds the Key to European Defence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Europe must be able to defend itself without Uncle Sam\u2019s sword and shield. Ukraine can help \u2013 but the groundwork must begin now.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/visegradinsight.eu\/subscribe-to-visegrad-insight-2\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" width=\"1584\" height=\"396\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Banners-4.jpg\" data- class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-38206 lazyload\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The author is a defence expert, a member of the Slovak National Council and deputy chairman of Progressive Slovakia. This article was originally <a href=\"https:\/\/dennikn.sk\/5458111\/je-cas-rozmyslat-o-ukrajine-inak\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in Slovak by Denn\u00edk N. <\/p>\n<p>Nobody came to blows and nobody quarrelled much <a href=\"https:\/\/visegradinsight.eu\/nato-summit-ankara\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">during<\/a> the 2026 NATO Summit in Ankara. The allies announced the continuation of aid to Ukraine, an increase in budgets and strengthening of European forces so that NATO can cope with the reduction of American personnel and equipment in Europe.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tNewsletter<\/p>\n<p>Weekly updates with our latest articles and the editorial commentary. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Europe must be able to defend itself without Uncle Sam\u2019s sword and shield. Ukraine can help \u2013 but&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1131432,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7654],"tags":[2993,2000,299,71763,2821,307953,332,811,2558,657,335],"class_list":["post-1131431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ukraine","tag-defence","tag-eu","tag-europe","tag-european-defence","tag-nato","tag-ru00f3bert-fico","tag-russia","tag-security","tag-slovakia","tag-ukraine","tag-war-in-ukraine"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/117041782559931376","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1131431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1131431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1131431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1131432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1131431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1131431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1131431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}