US EditionNATO chief wishes ‘good luck’ to those who think Europe can defend itself without US help
NATO chief Mark Rutte said Europe must double defense spending to 10% of GDP and maintain U.S. nuclear protection amid calls for a separate European army.
- On Monday, NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte warned Europe cannot defend itself without U.S. support, emphasizing transatlantic reliance at the European Parliament.
- The diplomatic crisis over Greenland intensified debate about European military independence after U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to seize Greenland but backed off following talks with Rutte last week.
- At NATO's summit in The Hague, European allies including Canada pledged 5% of GDP on defence by 2035, supported by Article Five of NATO's founding Washington treaty.
- Rutte said NATO would take more responsibility for the defence of the Arctic but left talks over U.S. presence to Greenlandic and Danish authorities.
- Rutte said EU countries would have to double defence spending from the NATO target to 10 percent and spend 'billions and billions' on nuclear arms, warning Europe would lose the US nuclear umbrella.
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That he has become the chief flatterer of President Donald Trump, may happen. That to do so he despises Europe, no. High political leaders in Spain and France have reprimanded the words of NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte about his claims that Europe is not and will not be able to defend itself, without the United States. “Keep dreaming,” the Dutchman said during a hearing in the European Parliament in Brussels that has raised blisters.
The secretary general of the alliance recalled on Monday that the United States maintains a "total commitment" to NATO's collective defense. In addition, he also attributed to Trump the merit of getting all the countries of the alliance to increase their defense spending to at least 2% of GDP last year.
NATO chief says Europe is ‘dreaming’ if it thinks it can defend itself without US
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte has a reality check for the European Union: stop dreaming. Addressing the European Parliament, Rutte made it clear that Europe simply cannot defend itself without American muscle. If the EU wants to go it alone, Rutte said, it had better open its wallets. He estimated that each European nation would have to spend 10% of its gross domestic product and develop a brand-new nuclear arsenal to replace the U.S. umbre…
NATO Secretary General Says Europe Can’t Defend Itself Without US Help
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte told European Union parliamentarians on Jan. 26 that they cannot defend Europe without the help of the United States. “If anyone thinks here, again, that the European Union, or Europe as a whole, can defend itself without the US, keep on dreaming. You can’t. We can’t,” Rutte told the European Parliament’s defense committee in Brussels, Belgium. The majority of the EU’s 27 member states are members of NATO. Rutte…
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