{"id":22887,"date":"2022-06-03T06:20:29","date_gmt":"2022-06-03T06:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=22887"},"modified":"2022-06-03T06:20:29","modified_gmt":"2022-06-03T06:20:29","slug":"nato-chief-warns-of-gruelling-war-of-attrition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2022\/06\/03\/nato-chief-warns-of-gruelling-war-of-attrition\/","title":{"rendered":"Nato chief warns of gruelling \u2018war of attrition\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<article id=\"block-6299989c8f084d9060b73eeb\" class=\"block false dcr-f3pcia\">\n<p class=\"dcr-xry7m2\">Nato chief Jens Stoltenberg earlier warned that Ukraine\u2019s allies needed to brace for a gruelling \u201cwar of attrition\u201d ahead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-xry7m2\">Speaking to reporters following following White House talks with US president Joe Biden on Thursday, the secretary general told reporters:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"dcr-192pdjc\"><p>\u00a0We just have to be prepared for the long haul,\u201d the secretary general told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>Because what we see is that this war has now become a war of attrition.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"dcr-xry7m2\">Stoltenberg said Ukrainians are \u201cpaying a high price for defending their own country on the battlefield, but also we see that\u00a0Russia\u00a0is taking high casualties.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-xry7m2\">While reiterating that Nato does not want to enter direct confrontation with Russia, Stoltenberg said the western military alliance has a \u201cresponsibility\u201d to support Ukraine.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"dcr-192pdjc\"><p>Most wars &#8211; also, most likely this war &#8211; will at some stage end at the negotiating table, but what we know is that what happens around the negotiating table is very closely linked to the situation on the ground, on the battlefield.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<footer class=\"dcr-1eoy87d\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/footer>\n<\/article>\n<article id=\"block-629996cb8f08f0cf4d70290b\" class=\"block false dcr-f3pcia\">\n<header class=\"dcr-hmma49\">\n<div class=\"dcr-zjik7\"><\/div>\n<\/header>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nato chief Jens Stoltenberg earlier warned that Ukraine\u2019s allies needed to brace for a gruelling \u201cwar of attrition\u201d ahead. Speaking to reporters following following White House talks with US president Joe Biden on Thursday, the secretary general told reporters: \u00a0We just have to be prepared for the long haul,\u201d the secretary general told reporters. Because [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":22760,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[6728,5178,9907,2471,5572,4802,3805,12103,3457,5180,6348,11331,5251,13067,6571,2982,3954],"class_list":["post-22887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news","tag-alliance","tag-biden","tag-jens-stoltenberg","tag-joe-biden","tag-military","tag-nato","tag-president","tag-price","tag-russia","tag-ukraine","tag-us","tag-us-president","tag-war","tag-wars","tag-white","tag-white-house","tag-will"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22887\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}