Trump announces plan to sell NATO countries weapons for Ukraine
“This is, again, Europeans stepping up. … This is only the first wave, there will be more,” said NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte.
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Mark Rutte also appeared to accept that the US will go through with plans to withdraw its forces from Europe, but in a way that won’t leave “capability gaps.”
As Rutte formally unveils NATO 5% spending proposal, Hegseth says some allies ‘not quite there’
“We will decide, at the NATO summit, [on] the spending, and we already know we need to spend much, much more if we want to fulfill all these [capability] targets,” Rutte said on the sidelines of the defense ministerial.