Under new defense plans, NATO aims to have up to 300,000 troops available to move to its eastern flank within 30 days. About 100 aircraft take to the skies each day, and 27 warships are operating in the Baltic and Mediterranean Seas. Right now, around 40,000 troops are on standby from Estonia in the north down to Romania on the Black Sea. NATO is conducting the biggest revamp of its defense plans since the Cold War in case Putin decides to widen the conflict outside Ukraine. In Vilnius, the leaders will agree to make 2% the floor - that is, the least they should be spending - rather than the ceiling. The allies agreed in 2014 to move toward spending 2% of their gross domestic product on defense within a decade. With money, arms and ammunition being poured into Ukraine, the need to boost national military budgets is a no-brainer. routinely flails its allies for failing to spend enough on their defense budgets. He’s also seeking upgraded F-16 fighter jets from the U.S., and Sweden could be leverage. The long-time Turkish leader used the issue during election campaigning last month. It has changed its anti-terror laws and lifted an arms embargo on Turkey to assuage Erdogan’s concerns. Sweden has given up a history of military neutrality to seek protection under NATO’s security umbrella. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan doesn’t agree, and he aims to steal the summit spotlight. Nearly all allies, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg and Sweden say the country has done enough to join the military alliance. It’s unlikely that any conclusions will be drawn in Vilnius, but the summit is an important moment for leaders to flesh out what those guarantees might look like. NATO and the European Union would back that military protection with more money and other aid.
Failing that, major allies like the U.S., U.K., France and Germany could pledge to shield the country from another attack.
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