For an organisation described by France’s Emmanuel Macron as ‘brain dead’ in 2019, Nato is showing real signs of life. Indeed, spurred on by Vladimir Putin’s illegal invasion of Ukraine, the alliance has rarely been more relevant.
It is also growing. Finland and Sweden, both of whom already take part in Nato exercises, are set to join. Britain is stepping up, not only in support for Ukraine itself — where our commitment has risen to £2 billion — but for our allies in the Baltics, sending an additional 1,000 troops to bolster the defence of Estonia. Meanwhile, Germany, with the largest economy in Europe, is to spend two per cent of its GDP on defence. These developments are the opposite of what Moscow intended.
