Ukraine is a “good deal” for the United States, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said.
Stoltenberg, in an exclusive interview with the Washington Examiner, claimed:
Ukraine is a good deal for the United States. And most of the money the United States is providing to Ukraine is actually invested here in the US — buying American equipment which we are sending to Ukraine. So this is making us all safer, and, [making] the US defence industry stronger.
Stoltenberg arrived in the United States to discuss preparations for the next summit of NATO leaders, who will visit Washington in July to mark the 75th anniversary of the transatlantic alliance. His itinerary includes a speech at the Heritage Foundation, a long-standing conservative think tank that has become a bastion of policy proposals in recent years amid the war in Ukraine.
Secretary-General will embark on a diplomatic tour outside Washington, visiting a Lockheed Martin facility in Arkansas, “where, as he put it, European allies buy a lot of products” and Donald Trump’s former White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders serves as governor.
On 23 January, Stoltenberg said that the alliance was increasing its presence near Russia’s borders allegedly because it wanted to prevent escalation and military conflict. He also named support for Ukraine as one of NATO’s goals.
