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What did NATO's June 2019 headlines show?
Summary
A look back at two reports from 24 and 26 June 2019 touching on NATO's readiness and its burden-sharing arguments.
What was being said about NATO in the days leading up to 27 June 2019? Two reports from that week point in different directions.
On 24 June 2019, Ukraine's 140th Special Operations Centre became the first unit from a country that is not a NATO member to be certified for inclusion in the NATO Response Force. The report presented it as a first for any such country.
Two days later, on 26 June 2019, U.S. President Donald Trump said Germany was "delinquent" on NATO defence. He argued that Germany was giving Russia billions of dollars while the United States was expected to protect it.
Taken together, the reports show one story of operational integration involving a non-member and another of a public dispute over how allies shared the cost of defence. Both were part of the NATO news cycle as 27 June 2019 began.
