This finale of the Biden administration before Trump enters the White House could leave the UK and Europe in a vulnerable position
“Biden’s government has been trying to future-proof defence for Ukraine against what looks like almost certainly a Trump attempt to foreclose on the war,” retired Col Simon Diggins, a military and defence analyst, toldinvolving a reported 50,000 troops, including North Korean soldiers, to reclaim territory in the Kursk region that Ukrainian forces captured in August.fired UK-made long-range Storm Shadow missiles, which essentially lowered the threshold for using nuclear weapons.
“The really hard reality is that Europe is exposed, but it’s exposed because essentially it’s spent the last 30 years not spending any money on defence,” said Col Diggins. “We are likely to be in the firing line eventually, whether we like it or not,” Keir Giles, senior consulting fellow of the Russia and Eurasia Programme at Chatham House, told“The countries that are closer to Russia have donated entire sectors of military capability to Ukraine in order to be used there for the purpose they were brought for – keeping Russian tanks and artillery further away from the homeland.
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