President Joe Biden will make specific statements during this week’s NATO summit in Madrid, strengthening the position of US forces as it appears to oppose a “sharper and worsening Russian threat,” according to National Security Adviser Jake. Sullivan.
Reports include the addition of two US destroyers based at the Rota naval station in Spain, bringing the total number of US destroyers based there to six. Biden planned to discuss the decision with Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez during a meeting Tuesday.
“This will help increase the naval presence of the United States and NATO,” Sullivan said on board Air Force One as Biden flew to Madrid.
He said the new destroyers would be the first of several concrete reports on the position of US forces during the NATO summit. “The United States will make concrete statements tomorrow on land, sea and air about additional long-term military commitments after this crisis, no matter how long it lasts.”
“By the end of the summit, what you will see is a stronger, more effective, more reliable fight, a more capable and more determined position of the forces, in order to take into account a sharper and worsened Russian a threat, “he added.
He said the entire NATO alliance also plans to agree on specific goals to increase NATO funding from their national budgets.
This follows after NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg announced on Monday that the US-led military alliance will strengthen its battlegroups in the eastern part of the alliance to brigade levels, saying that this will be “the biggest overhaul of our collective deterrence and defense against the Cold War. “
“We will increase the number of high-alert forces to well over 300,000,” he said, adding that it would include “more pre-positioned equipment and military supplies; more deployed capabilities, such as air defense; enhanced command and control and improved defense plans, with forces pre-assigned to protect specific allies. “
According to the NATO website, the NATO Response Force consists of about 40,000 troops.
“These troops will exercise together with the internal defense forces. And they will get to know the local terrain, the facilities and our new pre-located stocks so that they can react smoothly and quickly in any emergency, ”Stoltenberg added.
With previous reports from Sharon Braithwaite of CNN in London
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