""The facts are simple: stopping this war now and with it the global arms race is cheaper than building underground kindergartens or massive bunkers for critical infrastructure later," he told the 193-member assembly at its annual meeting."
""Stopping Putin now is cheaper than trying to protect every port and every ship from terrorists with sea drones. Stopping Russia now is cheaper than wondering who will be the first to build a simple drone carrying a nuclear warhead. So we must use everything we have to force the aggressor to stop.""
""Now Russian drones are already flying across Europe, and Russian operations are already spreading across countries...Putin wants to continue this war by expanding it, and no one can feel safe right now.""
Stopping the war in Ukraine now would be less costly than preparing civilian and critical infrastructure for prolonged threats, according to the address. The proliferation and use of drones has reshaped the battlefield, with waves of hundreds of drones contributing to a large share of battlefield deaths. Russian drones and operations are crossing into other European countries, raising fears of wider conflict and incursions into NATO airspace. Weapons technology is evolving faster than defenses, heightening urgency to halt aggression. Preventing expansion of the war is framed as essential to avoid a destructive global arms race.
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