In his speech there, Bauer stressed that NATO must continue to invest in defense. “Defense is not a cost, it is an investment. If we don't invest in it, the Russians and the Chinese will slowly eat us,

With the looming risk that U.S. President-elect Donald Trump may pull the plug on Washington's support for Ukraine, Kyiv has flirted with the option of nuclear deterrence. The prospect of such a scenario was raised weeks earlier when President VolodymyrZelensky in October said he had told Trump during a September meeting in New York City that

Zelensky's nuclear rhetoric won't stop until Ukraine finds a long-term security solution. And that includes becoming a NATO member.