 "German Chancellor Olaf Scholz promised to inject $113 billion into the country’s armed forces")
Nicolae Ciuca spent a lifetime on the battlefield before being voted in as prime minister of Romania four months ago. Yet even he did not imagine the need to spend millions of dollars for emergency production of iodine pills to help block radiation poisoning in case of a nuclear blast, or to raise military spending by 25 percent in a single year.
“We never thought we’d need to go back to the Cold War and consider potassium iodine again,” Ciuca, a retired general, said at Victoria Palace, the government’s headquarters in Bucharest. “We never expected this kind of war in the
