{"id":13676,"date":"2026-04-08T06:59:55","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T06:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=13676"},"modified":"2026-04-08T06:59:55","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T06:59:55","slug":"breaking-new-13-countries-join-forces-to-attacksee-more-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=13676","title":{"rendered":"Breaking New: 13 Countries Join Forces To Attack\u2026See More"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"223\" data-end=\"393\">After Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine and growing pressure from the United States, Europe is facing a question once thought impossible:\u00a0<strong data-start=\"356\" data-end=\"393\">is the EU ready to defend itself?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"395\" data-end=\"694\">European leaders are accelerating military spending, defence cooperation, and infrastructure upgrades as security warnings grow louder. New EU plans aim to improve troop movement, boost weapons production, and strengthen deterrence by 2030, while defence budgets have already surpassed \u20ac300 billion.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"696\" data-end=\"990\">Eastern European countries closest to Russia are moving fastest, launching civil defence programs, public preparedness campaigns, and border security measures. Yet polls show a major gap between government urgency and public readiness \u2014 with most Europeans saying they would not fight in a war.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"992\" data-end=\"1162\">At the same time, Washington is pushing Europe to take greater responsibility for NATO\u2019s defence, raising concerns that long-standing security guarantees may be shifting.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1164\" data-end=\"1298\">The challenge now isn\u2019t whether Europe will act \u2014 but whether it can move fast enough to prepare for an increasingly uncertain future.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-3\">\n<div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1700471\" data-uid=\"00da7\">\n<div id=\"mgw1700471_00da7\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"mgbox\">\n<div class=\"mgheader\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>After Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine and growing pressure from the United States, Europe is facing a question once thought impossible:\u00a0is the EU ready to defend <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=13676\" title=\"Breaking New: 13 Countries Join Forces To Attack\u2026See More\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13677,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13676"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13678,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13676\/revisions\/13678"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}