Lt Gen Ingo Gerhartz suggests that Europe’s commitment to Australia and other partners in the region needs to be ‘really visible’
Last modified on Wed 1 Mar 2023 22.01 GMT
That occurred at a time when Nato was intensely focused on its “eastern flank” – the area stretching from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Black Sea in the south – amid increasing concern about the war in Ukraine. “But at the same time in parallel we deployed to the Indo-Pacific. That was a statement by itself in terms of our readiness level, that we are capable of doing both in parallel.”
But he added: “Especially now looking to the war in Ukraine, you cannot divide Europe from Asia, and you cannot divide the scenario we have looking to Russia with the scenario here in the Indo-Pacific.”
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