After Russia annexed Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula in 2014, NATO allies agreed to move toward spending two per cent of their gross domestic product on defence within a decade.
said Friday, notably by boosting investment in the Arctic near its shared border with Russia as the region warms quickly due to climate change.allies agreed to halt budget cuts and move toward spending two per cent of their gross domestic product on defence within a decade.Last year, as it became clear that Russia’s war with Ukraine would grind on, they decided that two per cent should be a spending minimum. According to NATO figures, Canada was estimated to be spending 1.
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg has said that he expects around two thirds of the alliance’s 32 member countries to spending 2 per cent of GDP on their defence budgets this year, up from just three countries a decade ago.Edmonton air traffic control playfully tries to ‘divert’ Florida Panthers’ flight
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