NATO was created at the start of the Cold War to address concerns about the threat posed by the Soviet Union to European democracies. The two new members of NATO, Finland and Sweden, requested to join the Alliance after this invasion of Ukraine.
Russia accuses NATO of having returned to a Cold War state of mind. France, Germany and Poland, for their part, suggested Wednesday in a joint declaration that all NATO countries commit to devoting 2% of their GDP to military spending. Only around twenty are currently meeting this objective, which everyone had endorsed ten years ago.