NATO is under pressure from President Donald Trump to boost its spending, and for its non-US members to take a larger role in European defense. Members have committed to spend 2% of GDP on defense, a threshold many do not meet. Trump wants members to boost spending to as high as 5%, having accused allies of freeloading off the US in the past.
Now men will go content with what we spoiled. Or, discontent, boil bloody, and be spilled. - Wilfred Owen, “Strange Meeting” (1919) There have been
The loss of Kiev will cost NATO not the additional billions of dollars that the alliance allocates for military needs now, but additional trillions of dollars, said NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte,
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said Monday that Ukraine was not yet in a strong position to begin peace talks with Russia ahead of President-elect Trump taking office next week with a pledge to
NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte urged Ukraine's Western allies to provide further support to Kyiv, stating he agreed with US President Donald Trump, who previously demanded that the alliance's member countries increase their defence budget from 2% to 5% ...
Should new US administration keep supplying Ukraine from its defense industrial base, Europeans must be ready to pay the bill, Mark Rutte says - Anadolu Ajansı
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said the alliance needs to urgently ... He pointed to the war production of Ukraine, driven by necessity, as a better model. Ukraine, he said, will proceed ...
The military alliance has been increasing its forces along its eastern flank with Russia, Belarus and Ukraine, deploying thousands of troops and equipment
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte on Thursday called for the U.S. to continue supplying Ukraine and said Europe would pay the bill. Speaking at an event at the World Economic Forum in Davos, the NATO chief said the alliance must invest more in defence,
The head of Nato has said “crazy” ethical investing rules are thwarting Europe’s efforts to ramp up defence spending. Mark Rutte, general secretary of the transatlantic military alliance, said that finance companies were withholding money from defence companies after effectively putting them into the same category as drug dealers and pornographers.
NATO Chief Mark Rutte has said that if a deal is reached between Russia and Ukraine that is aligned more towards Moscow, Putin and his allies, including China, North Korea, and Iran will have the last laugh,