Plans are being drawn-up to "transform" NATO in the wake of the Vladimir Putin regime's invasion of Ukraine, so that the military alliance would be able to repel an invasion by Russia along its eastern borders.
NATO's Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg told The Telegraph that NATO was “in the midst of a very fundamental transformation” in response to the invasion of Ukraine. And he said the alliance's new "strategic concept" would also, for the first time, acknowledge that the "rise of China, the shifting global balance of power, has direct consequences for NATO".
Mr Stoltenberg said that NATO's small “tripwire” force on its Eastern border - in former Soviet states like Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania - "would be transformed into a major force capable of taking on an invading army". He said that NATO now had 40,000 troops stationed along its eastern borders - a force that is nearly 10 times the size it was before Russia's invasion.
