A record 23 of NATO’s 32 member nations are hitting the Western military alliance’s defense spending target this year, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said Monday, as Russia’s war in Ukraine has raised the threat of expanding conflict in Europe.
The estimated figure is a nearly fourfold increase from 2021, when only six nations were meeting the goal. That was before Russian President Vladimir Putin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
— “A record number of NATO allies are hitting their defense spending target during war in Ukraine,” Associated Press
Executive Orders: A Skeptic’s View of the President’s Actions
With an authoritarian at the helm, banal summaries of executive orders don’t cut it. So I tasked ChatGPT to provide a brief analysis of each week’s presidential orders from a radical left perspective. No blind trust, no left-wing group think—just a bullshit detector wary of authoritarianism.