{"id":52352,"date":"2024-05-16T22:18:05","date_gmt":"2024-05-16T22:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/16\/friday-briefing-nato-considers-sending-trainers-to-ukraine\/"},"modified":"2024-05-16T22:18:05","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T22:18:05","slug":"friday-briefing-nato-considers-sending-trainers-to-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/16\/friday-briefing-nato-considers-sending-trainers-to-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Briefing: NATO Considers Sending Trainers to Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1050\" height=\"549\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2024\/05\/16\/multimedia\/17am-briefing-nato\/17am-briefing-nato-facebookJumbo.jpg?resize=1050,549&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Friday Briefing: NATO Considers Sending Trainers to Ukraine\" title=\"Friday Briefing: NATO Considers Sending Trainers to Ukraine\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<h2 class=\"css-9ycfei eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-7f769a7e\">NATO is considering sending military trainers to Ukraine<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">NATO allies are inching closer to <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/05\/16\/us\/politics\/nato-ukraine.html\" title=\"\">sending military trainers into Ukraine<\/a>. The move could draw the U.S. and Europe more directly into the war with Russia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ukrainian officials have asked their U.S. and NATO counterparts to help train 150,000 new recruits closer to the front line for faster deployment. So far the U.S. has been adamant that it will not put U.S. troops on the ground in Ukraine, and has urged NATO allies not to do so either.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But yesterday, Gen. Charles Brown, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said that a NATO deployment of trainers seemed inevitable. \u201cWe\u2019ll get there eventually, over time,\u201d he told reporters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">For now, the general said, such a move would put NATO trainers at risk and would most likely mean deciding whether to use precious air defenses to protect the trainers \u2014 instead of critical Ukrainian infrastructure near the battlefield. Any attack on the trainers would force the U.S. to honor its NATO obligations, dragging it into the war.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\"><strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">At the front: <\/strong>Ukraine\u2019s position has worsened as Russia has stepped up attacks, in particular in the northeast. Yesterday, President Volodymyr Zelensky traveled to the Kharkiv region and acknowledged that the situation there \u201c<a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/05\/16\/world\/europe\/ukraine-kharkiv-russia.html\" title=\"\">remains extremely difficult<\/a>.\u201d \u201cWe are strengthening our units,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\"><strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">Russia:<\/strong> As he intensifies his war effort, President Vladimir Putin called for <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/05\/16\/world\/asia\/putin-xi-china-russia.html\" title=\"\">stronger economic ties between Russia and China<\/a> at a summit in Beijing with Xi Jinping, China\u2019s leader.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\"><strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">U.K.:<\/strong> Moscow expelled <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/05\/16\/world\/europe\/russia-british-diplomat-expel.html\" title=\"\">Britain\u2019s defense attach\u00e9<\/a> in Russia. Britain had thrown out his Russian counterpart last week.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"css-7ad88g e1mu4ftr0\"\/><\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<h2 class=\"css-9ycfei eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-2117f1a7\">Trump\u2019s lawyers grilled Michael Cohen<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Todd Blanche, a lawyer for former President Donald Trump, sought to cast Michael Cohen as <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2024\/05\/16\/nyregion\/trump-trial-cohen-hush-money\/trump-trial-hush-money-cohen?smid=url-share\" title=\"\">a fabricator who had lied under oath<\/a> to exact revenge on his former boss. Trump\u2019s defense team is trying to undermine the credibility of Cohen\u2019s testimony, which underpins the 34 felony counts against Trump.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Cohen, Trump\u2019s onetime lawyer and fixer, was also questioned about phone calls he had previously described in his testimony \u2014 including one that he said concerned the $130,000 payment he made to Stormy Daniels to suppress her account of a sexual rendezvous with the former president. Blanche expressed incredulity that Cohen could accurately recall years-old phone calls. Cohen insisted that his testimony was accurate, and that he could remember the conversations because he had been talking about them for the last six years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Blanche also tried to prove that Cohen was motivated by anger. He pressed Cohen on statements he had made about Trump\u2019s indictment, including a clip of him saying \u201cYou better believe I want this man to go down and rot inside for what he did to me and my family.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\"><strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">What\u2019s next:<\/strong> Cohen, who has kept his composure on the stand so far, will return on Monday.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"css-7ad88g e1mu4ftr0\"\/><\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<h2 class=\"css-9ycfei eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-67ec32c5\">A suspect was charged in Slovakia<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The authorities have <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2024\/05\/16\/world\/slovakia-prime-minister-fico-shot\/prime-minister-robert-fico-shooting-slovakia?smid=url-share\" title=\"\">charged a suspect in the attempted assassination<\/a> of Prime Minister Robert Fico, who was shot multiple times on Wednesday. The gunman was a \u201clone wolf,\u201d radicalized after last month\u2019s presidential election, officials said. Slovakian news media described him as a 71-year-old amateur poet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Fico\u2019s condition has stabilized after five hours of surgery, but the deputy prime minister warned that he was \u201cnot out of a life-threatening situation.\u201d He said Fico faced a \u201cdifficult\u201d recovery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\"><strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">Politics: <\/strong>Slovakia is sharply divided between Fico supporters, who back his right-wing nationalist and anti-immigration policies, and opponents who say he\u2019s destroying democracy. Critics have accused him of trying to take the country back to its repressive communist past.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"css-1uuxri4 e1gnsphs0\" id=\"link-55bd377a\"><span><strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">MORE TOP NEWS<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">For decades, Israel has allowed Jewish ultranationalists to terrorize Palestinians in the occupied territories. <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/05\/16\/magazine\/israel-west-bank-settler-violence-impunity.html\" title=\"\">A Times Magazine investigation<\/a> shows how a radical ideology in Israeli society moved from the fringes to the heart of power.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/video\/magazine\/100000009469710\/west-bank-settler-violence-israel.html\" title=\"\">a video<\/a>, the writer Ronen Bergman explained how the failure to stop crimes by Jewish settlers and ultranationalists threatens Israeli democracy. 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The move could draw the U.S. and Europe more directly into the war with Russia. 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