Warsaw Pact and Defence Investment

nato: The Warsaw Pact took shape just six years later revitalizing then Soviet leader Joseph Stalin's idea to build a buffer space beyond the huge Sarmatic Plain to impede any other possible attempt of invasion after the WWII. Seventy years later, the Soviet Union does not exist anymore but NATO is still here and counts 29 member countries, waiting for another one - North Macedonia - that is completing its accession process, according to Global Times China. In the recent London summit, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said, This is the fifth year of rising defence investment since European allies and Canada have added 130 billion. Photo Xinhua On April 4, 1949, 12 Western countries founded NATO to create a defence structure capable of containing the military might of the Soviet Union. According to the forecasts, by the end of 2024, that figure will rise to 400 billion. On strategic issues that concern our shared security. This is unprecedented, Stoltenberg added, and it's making NATO stronger, noting our meeting has once again demonstrated that NATO remains the only place where Europe and North America discuss, decide and act every day together. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.