NATO Chief: Russia Could Be Ready To Fight The West In Five Years
NATO Chief: Russia Could Be Ready To Fight The West In Five Years
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte warned that Russia could launch an attack on the bloc within five years. He called on members to increase defense spending to 5% of GDP.
Speaking at the British Chatham House think tank, Rutte told the audience, “Russia could be ready to use military force against NATO within five years. Five years. Let’s not kid ourselves, we are all on the Eastern flank now.” He continued, “There is no longer East or West – there is just NATO.”
Rutte argued that to combat the supposed threat from Russia, NATO states must boost military spending to 5% of their GDP, adding “3.5% will be invested in our core military requirements. While the rest will go towards defence and security-related investments, including infrastructure and building industrial capacity.” He went on to say that “5% is not some figure plucked from the air, it is grounded in hard facts.”
President Donald Trump has also called for NATO to increase its minimum defense spending level to 5% of GDP. The current requirement is 2%, and only 23 of 32 members meet that threshold.
Spain and Italy will hit the minimum level for the first time this year, while Canada is not expected to spend more than 2% of its GDP on defense until 2027.
US Ambassador to NATO Matthew Whitaker restated that demand last week. “We are currently negotiating within the North Atlantic Council the timelines and what’s included in the 5%, both from a core defense standpoint and also defense-related and security-related spending,” he said Wednesday. He added that member states must rapidly ramp up spending to reach that goal.
According to NATO statistics, in 2024, only Poland spent over 4% of GDP on its military. Four countries, including the US, spend over 3% on defense. For the US, this would mean spending $1.45 trillion annually on the war budget.
🔗SOURCE ➡️ Libertarian Institute
6/2 — 👀😐😅🍕📶🆘 Overnight Pentagon Pizza Index Uhhhhhh…..
6/1 – Russian Nuclear Doctrine Triggered
6/2 — Ukraine says hit $7 billion worth of Russian military planes in drone strikes: SBU security service
6/2 — Ukraine says at least 40 Russian warplanes hit in massive drone strikes – BBC
6/2 — Ukraine launch drone strikes on multiple Russian air bases, military planes targeted. Russian bloggers are calling it “Russian Pearl Harbor”
6/2 — A huge covert Ukrainian attack from inside Russian territory has destroyed almost a dozen Russian strategic bombers — The coordinated wave of attacks carried out by suicide drones, dubbed ‘Operation Web’ by Ukrainian intelligence, targeted four different airbases deep inside Russia.
5/26 — Donald Trump says Vladimir Putin is ‘killing a lot of people’ and ‘has gone absolutely crazy.’
3/13 — Zelensky: Kiev Won’t Cede Territory, Wants ‘Strong’ US Response If Russia Rejects Ceasefire
10/17/24 — Ukraine Poised To Join NATO — NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte
9/26/24 — EU’s Defense Chief Says Europe Must Be Ready To Fight Russia In 6-8 Years
9/13/24 — Putin: Supporting Long-Range Strikes On Russian Territory Would Put NATO ‘At War With Russia’
9/10/24 — Victoria Nuland Admits US Discouraged Ukraine From Signing Peace Deal With Russia In 2022
6/3/24 — Stoltenberg Shrugs Off Putin’s Warnings About NATO Weapons Striking Targets Inside Russia
4/13/24 — Wider War in Europe ‘No Longer a Fantasy’, Warns EU’s Top Diplomat
3/28/24 — Russia Is Preparing for an All-out War With NATO to Happen Sooner Than Originally Believed: ISW
Follow us on Minds / X / Substack
Follow ➡️ @PsyopDaily
