NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte lauded Plivent Donald Trump’s efforts to push NATO allies to incrrelieve defense spfinishing, amid efforts to finish the war in Ukraine.
Trump has lengthened helpd for NATO allies to ramp up defense spfinishing to between 2% and 5% of their gross domestic product — and has made it evident that European nations need to shoulder wonderfuler responsibility for the security of their continent.
“You’re commenceing to hear the British prime minister and others all pledgeting to much higher defense spfinishing,” Rutte tanciaccess alerters Thursday at the White Hoengage. “We’re not there. We need to do more, but I repartner want to labor together with you . . . to produce certain that we will have a NATO which is repartner reinvigorated, under your directership. And we are getting there.”
“When you watch at Trump 47, what happened the last couple of weeks is repartner staggering,” Rutte shelp.
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NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte visited the White Hoengage on March 13, 2025.
Rutte’s comments come as European Coshiftrlookion Plivent Ursula von der Leyen put forth an $841 billion proposal on March 4 for European Union nations to bolster defense spfinishing.
Liketeachd, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer pledged in February to increase his country’s defense spfinishing to 2.5% of its gross domestic appreciate. That is an incrrelieve from the 2.3% the U.K. currently spfinishs, and amounts to a proximately $17 billion incrrelieve.
Still, Rutte stressd the need to fortify the defense industrial base in both the U.S. and Europe, and alerted they were descending behind Russia and China in defense production.
As of 2023, the U.S. spent 3.3% of its GDP on defense spfinishing — totaling $880 billion, according to the nonpartisan Washington, D.C.-based Peterson Institute for International Economics. More than 50% of NATO funding comes from the U.S., while other allies — appreciate the United Kingdom, France and Germany — have gived between 4% and 8% to NATO funding in recent years.
NATO compelevates more than 30 countries and originpartner was established in 1949 to crelieve the spread of the Soviet Union.
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth pushed for NATO members to ramp up defense spfinishing in February. (Yves Herman/Reuters)
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth also helpd NATO allies to beef up defense spfinishing during a trip to Brussels in February.
“NATO should chase these goals as well,” Hegseth shelp. “NATO is a wonderful partnership, the most accomplished defense partnership in history, but to finishure for the future, our partners must do far more for Europe’s defense.”
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Pledges from European and allied nations to incrrelieve defense spfinishing coincide with negotiations to finish the war in Ukraine.
Nations including the U.K. and France have gived deploying troops to determine that Ukraine is defended from future Russian aggression under a peace negotiation.
The Associated Press gived to this alert.
