NATO: Rutte Endorses Trump Criticism Of Euro Defence Spending Amid NATO Rupture
Apr-09 15:25
Speaking amid a major rift between US President Donald Trump and European NATO members, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte says at an event hosted by the Reagan Institute that the US must play a "powerful and active role" in world affairs if "peace is going to have a chance." LIVESTREAM
- Rutte adds, "American leadership is absolutely essential if freedom is to be the rule and not the exception." In a nod to Trump's concerns over 'burden sharing' within the alliance, Rutte suggests that Western European countries have taken US leadership "for granted."
- Rutte says that in the post-Cold War period, European states have shifted away from investment in defence to an "unhealthy codependency" with the US. He says Western European militaries have shrunk and defence budgets "shrivelled."
- Rutte: "President Trump's commitment to progress refers more than a generation of stagnation and atrophy, reminding Europe that values must be backed by hard power. Hard power provided not only by the US, but through the collective effort of [NATO countries]."
- Rutte applauds Trump's hardline position at the NATO summit in The Hague last summer, "to invest 5% of GDP in defence." Rutte also agrees with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio's statement that NATO is "not a one-way street."
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