A record 23 of NATO’s 32 member nations are hitting the Western military alliance’s defence spending target this year, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said on Monday. The estimated figure represents an almost fourfold increase from 2021 when only six nations were achieving the goal. This was before Russian President Vladimir Putin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. “Europeans are doing more for their collective security than just a few years ago,” Stoltenberg said in a speech at the Wilson Center research group. After the speech, Stoltenberg met at the White House with President…