Daniel Michaels

3 weeks ago | wsj.com | Daniel Michaels |Laurence Norman

Trump has told NATO’s other members to lift their defense-spending target from 2% of gross domestic product—their goal since 2014—to 5%. European members of the 32-country alliance last year focused on 3% of GDP as a new target, and many blanched when Trump mentioned the 5% target after winning re-election. At a meeting of NATO’s governing council last Wednesday, the U.S. prodded other members to agree to 5% of GDP as their new goal, according to people briefed on the conversation.

3 weeks ago | wallstreetjournal.postimees.ee | Daniel Michaels

Komandör Erik Kockx patrullis äsja Läänemerel, kui talle laekus sõnum laevast, kes käitus kahtlaselt. Belglane andis korralduse ja Hollandi kuninglikule mereväele kuuluv Luymes võttis kursi tankeri suunas, kuna seda asja oli vaja uurida. Kockx on osa NATO missioonist Baltic Sentry – pingutus pidada silma peal äärmiselt tiheda laevaliiklusega merel, mida allianssi liikmed Venemaaga jagavad.

3 weeks ago | wsj.com | Daniel Michaels

ABOARD THE HNLMS LUYMES—Belgian Navy Commander Erik Kockx was patrolling the Baltic Sea recently when he got word that a ship on NATO’s watchlist was acting in a suspicious manner. After leaving a Russian port, it had slowed down while passing near a pipeline on the sea bottom. The Luymes sailed toward the tanker to investigate. Kockx leads a task force in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s new mission to police the inland sea that its members share with Russia.

3 weeks ago | jp.wsj.com | Daniel Michaels |Noemie Bisserbe |Michael Gordon

【パリ】ロシアがウクライナへの大規模な侵攻を開始した2週間後、フランスのエマニュエル・マクロン大統領はロシア政府にメッセージを発信するため、首都パリの地下20階へと向かった。　マクロン氏は大統領官邸（エリゼ宮）の地下深くに設けられた核シェルターに入った。「ポーカー」と呼ばれる軍事演習を指揮するためだ。2022年3月の空が晴れ渡ったその夜を仏当局者は選んだ。数日前、ロシアのウラジーミル・プーチン大統領が自国の核戦力を高度な警戒態勢に引き上げると発表し、西側に露骨な脅しをかけたのを受け、反応を示そうとした。Copyright ©2025 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8

3 weeks ago | tovima.com | Daniel Michaels |Laurence Norman |Matthew Dalton

European leaders had hoped that Vice President JD Vance ’s antagonism was a political show to build domestic support. Now, after Vance expressed disdain for Europe in a private text chat about Yemen attack details, officials are coming to terms with a vocal vice president whose antipathy for Europe appears to run deep. “I just hate bailing Europe out again,” he said regarding planned U.S. strikes against Houthi rebels, in an exchange published by the Atlantic magazine.