NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte “I tell you very clearly: we have to prepare for war”

https://www.welt.de/politik/ausland/article255317698/Aufruestung-Ich-sage-es-Ihnen-ganz-deutlich-Wir-muessen-uns-auf-Krieg-vorbereiten.html

by BkkGrl

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  1. > NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte has asked Germany to significantly increase its defense spending and increase its armaments production. Germany has to “spend more and produce more,” said Rutte the “Bild am Sonntag” . Germany must “consistently continue” the way it has taken, both in Europe and in Ukraine.
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    > Germany has “done a lot right” since the beginning of the Russian War in Ukraine, emphasized the NATO boss. “But: In view of the size of the German economy, of course, we want them to do a lot more.” Rutte justified the claim, among other things, with the threat of Russia. “I tell you very clearly: we have to prepare for war. That is the best way to avoid war. “Europe should” show no weakness “towards Russia. “Otherwise Russia could try something. The way you did in Ukraine. ”
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    > From Rutte’s point of view, however, dangers are not only threatened by Russia. The Chinese also “enormously” expanded their military skills.
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    > The NATO alliance also announced that the future quota for defense spending well over two percent will be in the future. More than two thirds of the NATO partners would now spend more than two percent for armor. This is also thanks to US President Donald Trump.
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    > The alliance partners would decide the exact assessment details in the coming months, said Rutte with a view of the next NATO summit in the Dutch Den Haag in June. “But I can assure you one thing: it will be much, much more than two percent.”
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    > At the summit, diplomats expect a bitter haggling of a higher target brand of initially three or 3.5 percent. In this context, Rutte called up the alliance partners for more cohesion. “NATO has to hold together as a alliance. But the load must be distributed fairly between Europe, Canada and the USA. So that the Americans don’t pay too much and we are not too little. ”
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    > Trump had threatened the Europeans with the end of the NATO bonus package if they did not invest enough in their defense. It pushes NATO allies to higher defense spending and calls for expenditure of five percent of gross domestic product (GDP) from each member country. So far, Allianz provides expenditure of at least two percent. Germany briefly meets the quota, they miss seven EU countries, including Italy, Spain, Portugal and Belgium.

  3. Sad but very true. Wars are won or lost long before actual physical clash.

  4. Better being prepared for a war that hopefully never happens, then being unprepared and being in the middle of a full scale war.

    Jens Stoltenberg would have told the same message that Mark Rutte tells right now. It’s sad that here in the Netherlands a lot of people don’t believe this message, because of his former function as prime minister

  5. All the PRC and Ruzzians did was ensure remilitarization of Japan and Germany. It’s a predictable pendulum.

  6. talk softly and carry a big stick. rutte gets it.

  7. We are in a state of Cold War since the early 2000s with russia, pretty much the entirety of Europe has slept on taking action against it.

    The entire shit that happens political right now in Europe? The far right movements destabilizing everything? Thats all through russian machinations.

    We should have prepared 20 years ago, but oh well, better late than never.

  8. What NATO? Maybe Canada is still with Europe, but otherwise i don’t see a transatlantic alliance existing anymore. Trump has destroyed that in under a month. We need to build a European+Canadian military alliance on our own. Hopefully also including Turkey.

  9. *Si vis pacem para bellum*

    If you want peace, prepare for war.

  10. But war with whom?

    Right now it looks like the US is more intersted in starting a war with Europe (Denmark) than Russia is.

  11. Europe should be preparing for war against Russia, so when the US attacks, we’ll be at least somewhat prepared.

  12. My take: the unspoken reason for this is because America has become a rabid dog. It is only a matter of time before something happens, where Europe must defend herself from Trump’s grasping paw.

  16. The elephant in the room is that if this was serious, they would be refurbishing nuclear bunkers instead of buying >!american!< weapons. Being prepared for the worst is better deterrence than having whole 3 new superduper gen 69 stealth jets.

  18. The really sad bit about this is that the enemy is still seen to be Russia which is weaker than it has ever been, whilst ignoring the US who are the only ones pushing a war agenda.

  19. It will happen in the next four years. NATO is dead, the US won’t help any ally under president Trump. The only question is which european country is going to be on which side.

  20. Right now the US is a bigger problem than China, but sure…call Trump an ally…and waste all future potential for europe while Asia is the new potential. Why do we keep kissing even the most foul of American asses while they constantly make it hard for us and treat us as some kind of colony ?

  21. I like you Mark, but I think your message is falling upon deaf ears. There’s been a lax attitude to having a war with Russia and that was blatantly visible back in 2014. All 3 countries that were tasked with protecting Ukraine failed them (Russia being the main rule breaker, because they invaded in the first place). The UK and USA did sweet fuck all, when Crimea was annexed. Which sends, yet another message, that the west can’t be trusted to keep their word. Something I resent about my countries leadership.

  22. If we’re going to collectively divert more money to weapons then at least spend it on R&D as a stimulus and not just line the US & Israel’s pockets.

  23. He’s right but he’s also spent the last 12 years basically neglecting and hollowing out the Dutch defense for everything he could squeeze out of it. We were never at the 2% under Mark Rutte, but now with out new Cabinet we are…and suddenly Mark wants us to go to 3% because oh no, 2% definetly isn’t enough.

    It sucks that he’s right because fuck, what an arrogant, hypocritical fuck.

  24. Let’s meet the target, but only with EU or non US supplies. It is not ok to use threat to increase market for the US economy.

  25. Unfortunately, he’s right.

    The problem is that the war is more likely against the United States than against anyone else.

  26. I commend Rutte for determinately repeating this basic fact. Europe’s populations are still pretending there is nothing going on (or worse, that somebody will find a solution for them, typically by “doing a deal” with the aggressor). China is fully invested in waging a war on Europe as its means to unseat the US-led liberal order (and under Trump I fear they have a partner who will deliver their victory for them on a platter). Si vis pacem, para bellum!

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  28. > More than two thirds of the NATO partners would now spend more than two percent for armor. This is also thanks to US President Donald Trump.

    What a bs, this has nothing to do with Trump. There wasn’t a 2% obligation, the 2% guideline was issued as a benchmark in 2006 as a goal to work towards.

    In 2014 NATO reaffirmed the 2% in which leaders committed to “halting any decline in defence spending and moving toward the 2% target within a decade” in the Defence Investment Pledge after Russia seized Crimea in 2014. Which meant, among other things, that every country must meet at least the 2% standard **as of 2024**.

    So when Trump started complaining in 2019, there was already an agreement in progress to increase defence spending, but he was absolutely wrong the 2% was already an obligation.
    The only thing he did was make the allies aware that the US is an unreliable partner.

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