On an official visit to Berlin, Albanese defended the alliance’s secretary general Jens Stoltenberg and the role NATO was playing in helping Ukraine.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has distanced himself from a vicious attack by Labor supremo Paul Keating on the head of the world’s most powerful military alliance, reminding Australians their lives are directly affected by the ongoing war in Ukraine.
Albanese, standing in front of Berlin’s Brandenberg Gate which has become a national symbol of peace and unity, told reporters Stoltenberg was “a friend of Australia”.Loading He said Australia stood strong with the people and government of Ukraine and supported the “extraordinary effort” that NATO was showing.In a major step in military relations, Germany will for the first time send troops to Australia as part of joint drills with more than 30,000 service members from 12 other nations, as Berlin increases its focus on the Indo-Pacific amid rising tensions with China in the region.
Last year, Berlin sent 13 military aircraft to joint exercises in Australia, the air force’s largest peacetime deployment. In 2021, a German warship sailed into the South China Sea for the first time in almost 20 years. “With all of Asia’s recent development amid its long and latent poverty, that promise would be compromised by having anything to do with the militarism of Europe – and militarism egged on by the United States,” he said.
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