The US president has insisted European member states spend more on their own defense
The US has begun to phase out foreign funding programs for NATO countries bordering Russia in an effort to push its European allies to pay for their own security, Financial Times has reported.
Pentagon officials last week told Western European diplomats that Washington will no longer fund programs aimed at training and equipping the militaries of the bloc’s eastern member states, the outlet wrote on Thursday, citing anonymous officials.
Moscow has long insisted that it views eastward NATO expansion, and the military buildup of countries on Russia’s western…
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