Tag: Europe
France to Let Ukraine Produce Missiles Under New Defense Deal
France will license Ukraine to produce SCALP long-range cruise missiles, AASM Hammer precision-guided bombs and Aster-30 interceptor missiles, President Emmanuel Macron announced after meeting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Paris on July 13. The agreement marks the first time France has authorized production of its own weapons systems on Ukrainian…
Ankara Summit Shows NATO Rediscovering Its Purpose
NATO was built in 1949 to contain a Soviet threat its founders believed diplomacy alone could not hold. When the Soviet Union collapsed, the Alliance spent three decades answering a nagging question: what was it still for? The Ankara summit declaration gave an unusually direct answer.NATO names Russia and rediscovers…
