{"id":1605,"date":"2022-03-24T12:02:47","date_gmt":"2022-03-24T12:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/linksus.net\/nato-to-agree-to-major-increases-of-forces-to-support-ukraine-axios\/"},"modified":"2022-03-24T12:02:47","modified_gmt":"2022-03-24T12:02:47","slug":"nato-to-agree-to-major-increases-of-forces-to-support-ukraine-axios","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/2022\/03\/24\/nato-to-agree-to-major-increases-of-forces-to-support-ukraine-axios\/","title":{"rendered":"NATO to agree to &quot;major increases&quot; of forces to support Ukraine &#8211; Axios"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NATO will agree at a summit on Thursday to significantly bolster its troop presence on its eastern flank, Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg told reporters at a <a class=\"gtmContentClick\" data-vars-link-text=\"press conference on Wednesday\" data-vars-click-url=\"https:\/\/www.nato.int\/cps\/en\/natohq\/opinions_193610.htm\" data-vars-content-id=\"12eb1741-55cd-40cb-8df6-12574d0897ba\" data-vars-headline=\"NATO to agree to &quot;major increases&quot; of troops on eastern flank\" data-vars-event-category=\"story\" data-vars-sub-category=\"story\" data-vars-item=\"in_content_link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nato.int\/cps\/en\/natohq\/opinions_193610.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">press conference on Wednesday<\/a>.<br \/><strong>State of play: <\/strong>The deployment will consist of four new battle groups in Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania and Slovakia. Stoltenberg said he expects leaders at Thursday&#x27;s emergency summit in Brussels \u2014 which Biden will attend \u2014 to OK strengthening &quot;NATO\u2019s posture in all domains.&quot;<br \/><strong>The backdrop: <\/strong>Since Russia&#x27;s military buildup on Ukraine&#x27;s border began in October, the U.S. and NATO have deployed thousands of troops to eastern-flank countries like Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Bulgaria and Romania, Axios&#x27; <a class=\"gtmContentClick\" data-vars-link-text=\"Zach Basu reports.\" data-vars-click-url=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/where-100000-us-troops-are-stationed-europe-70dcbd9b-3ce1-47e5-9e89-89980c5ede71.html\" data-vars-content-id=\"12eb1741-55cd-40cb-8df6-12574d0897ba\" data-vars-headline=\"NATO to agree to &quot;major increases&quot; of troops on eastern flank\" data-vars-event-category=\"story\" data-vars-sub-category=\"story\" data-vars-item=\"in_content_link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/where-100000-us-troops-are-stationed-europe-70dcbd9b-3ce1-47e5-9e89-89980c5ede71.html\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">Zach Basu reports.<\/a><br \/><strong>What he&#x27;s saying: &quot;<\/strong>We face a new reality for our security, so we must reset our deterrence and defense for the longer term,&quot; Stoltenberg said. <br \/><strong>Go deeper: <\/strong><a class=\"gtmContentClick\" data-vars-link-text=\"Where 100,000 U.S. troops are stationed in Europe\" data-vars-click-url=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/where-100000-us-troops-are-stationed-europe-70dcbd9b-3ce1-47e5-9e89-89980c5ede71.html\" data-vars-content-id=\"12eb1741-55cd-40cb-8df6-12574d0897ba\" data-vars-headline=\"NATO to agree to &quot;major increases&quot; of troops on eastern flank\" data-vars-event-category=\"story\" data-vars-sub-category=\"story\" data-vars-item=\"in_content_link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/where-100000-us-troops-are-stationed-europe-70dcbd9b-3ce1-47e5-9e89-89980c5ede71.html\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">Where 100,000 U.S. troops are stationed in Europe<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/nato-jens-stoltenberg-ukraine-russia-summit-12eb1741-55cd-40cb-8df6-12574d0897ba.html\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NATO will agree at a summit on Thursday to significantly bolster its troop presence on its eastern flank, Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg told reporters at a press conference on Wednesday.State of play: The deployment will consist of four new battle groups in Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania and Slovakia. Stoltenberg said he expects leaders at Thursday&#x27;s emergency [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":869,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1605"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/869"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}