NATO is marking its 75th anniversary. But Russia’s war on Ukraine and rising populism is eating away its unity and resolve. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and his counterparts will mark on Thursday the moment NATO's founding treaty was signed on April 4, 1949, in Washington with a cake-cutting ceremony in Brussels.
From right, Luxembourg’s Foreign Minister Xavier Bettel, Belgium’s Foreign Minister Hadja Lahbib, Bulgaria’s Foreign Minister Mariya Gabriel, Romania’s Foreign Minister Luminita-Teodora Odobescu and British Foreign Secretary David Cameron pose during a meeting of the North Atlantic Council in foreign ministers format at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Wednesday, April 3, 2024.
Sweden’s foreign minister, Tobias Billström, is taking part in the first ministerial-level meeting since his country became NATO’s 32nd allyover more than seven decades from its 12 founding members, but Finland and Sweden joined in record time to shelter under NATO’s collective security guarantee, after coming under pressure for compensation from populist leaders in Turkey and Hungary.
Among the more recent successes as it grew from the Cold War and after the Berlin Wall collapsed, NATO would count its 1999 air campaign against former Yugoslavia to end a bloody crackdown on separatist ethnic Albanians and its effort to avert near civil war in Macedonia in 2001.. NATO took command of the security effort in 2003 and it became the longest, costliest and deadliest in alliance history.
Putin said he launched the war, in part at least, because NATO was expanding closer to Russia’s borders.either. As an organization, the alliance only provides non-lethal support like transport vehicles, fuel, combat rations, medical supplies and demining equipment. However, many members provide arms and ammunition bilaterally or in groups.
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