Defense ministers will discuss how to map out a new NATO strategy toward Moscow, to reflect the frosty relationship.

During his swearing-in ceremony as the new Secretary General of the North Atlantic Alliance, Mark Rutte declared his top priorities were strengthening the alliance and bringing Ukraine closer to the bloc.

In its Friday editorial, Global Times took the opportunity to examine NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg’s farewell speech of the day before, “What has NATO’s ‘expansion’ vaunted by secretary general brought?” One million Ukrainian deaths, many more millions displaced, and the nation ruined on behalf of NATO policy weren’t any of the facts Stoltenberg mentioned.

Mark Rutte made the trip just two days after replacing Jens Stoltenberg

The already former NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg was sued, accused of provoking a conflict on Ukraine.

The whole war in Ukraine could and should have been avoided. Russia had simple demands: Don’t join NATO. Be Neutral. Recognize Crimea, a part of Russia.

Propaganda & Proxy Wars

President Putin has warned that the long-range precision missiles considered to be used against Russian territory will make NATO directly involved in the war. These missiles supplied by the US and UK can only be operated with the involvement of American and British soldiers, and the missiles will be guided by the satellites of NATO countries. The dishonest discussion in the West about NATO’s decision to escalate in such a reckless manner is deeply troubling given that nuclear war is at stake.

Ukraine leader Zelensky off to Washington to discuss missile strike targets inside Russia, an escalation that could ignite World War III

Ukraine is marooned in Russia’s Kursk region’s archipelago of attrition while Russia breaks through the Donbass impasse and into open operational space towards the Dnieper River