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Putin’s secret weapon? The F-35

16 June 2021

8:24 AM

16 June 2021

8:24 AM

This week’s Nato summit communiqué was predictably replete with bombast about the ever growing threat of Russian aggression — along with tentative references to the ‘challenges’ of China’s ‘growing influence’.

More cheerfully, it greeted the news that ’24 allies are spending over 20 percent of their defense expenditures on major equipment’, with confident hopes that newcomers would join this exclusive club in the near future.

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