“The ball is clearly in court Russian”, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said in an interview This will be in the air on Sunday “to face the nation of Margaret Brennan.” “Don’t move fast enough, is it my impression – including the impression I get from my American interlocutors, yes – that Russia really has to do more to bring this war to end.”
Rutte, who talked to Brennan Friday, said that the United States and its allies were organized by the North Atlantic Agreement and working in Tandem to secure the end of the war in Ukraine and Russian aggression.
He posed a white house by the priority of trying to “break downstairs” in Ukraine, where the Russian invasion is grown from 2022, which resulted in hundreds of thousands of victims and wholesale destruction of cities and cities.
“I talked to Marco Rubio, I’m regularly contacting the other members of the American administration. You really tried, step by step, that this war can end up,” Rutte said, before examining Russia’s advantage.
“Russians must also dance Tango, and at this point they don’t seem to do so,” Rutte said, while Ukrainians “really close to the American position.”
Russia has Not yet agreed To the full 30-day review he suggested now and said that there were still outstanding questions that must be first resolved.
Rubio, who is Attending NATO conference in BrusselsHe told reporters on Friday “, we will very much know from their answers very quickly whether it is seriously performed by real peace or whether it is the tactics of the delay. Now we reached the phase we need to progress.”
Rutte said it was the inauguration of the President Trump, who hit the peace process, saying Brennan that “until January this year did not happen when there was an end of this war.”
Two sides and now they work on hammers Details of the partial break fire.
NATO and Trump Tariffs
Rutte said he didn’t believe Mr. Trump Global tariffswhich banged Europe and many allies will harm the military alliance.
“I’m not saying that there is no influence on Individual alliesBut there is no impact on the Alliance, “said NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte in an interview recorded Friday”Face the nation with Margaret Brennan. ”
He added that “my firm belief” that a potential trade war will not affect European consumption or divergence in NATO.
Mr. Trump often criticized NATO countries for spending less More than 2% of their gross domestic product on the defense and in its second administration pushed members in more than twice their defense consumption at 5%.
Rutte claimed Friday that European countries have already increased their consumption.
“Amazing the amount of billions of coming. We must compare this to the days of the Cold War, when you look at the overall defense consumption that is now increasing in Europe,” Rutte said.
Nuclear deterrents
Brennan pressed for the statements that leaders of Germany, Poland and France widened Western European nuclear umbrella – out of assurance provided by the United States and the United Kingdom – Rutte said it was in the USA security at the American warranty of nuclear security.
“Marco Rubio was basically reiterated by what President Trump said three times: that he is fully dedicated to NATO, through a nautical deterrent, including the NATO.” Article 5. says the attack on any Member State. NATO attack on all members.
Rutte said that the Trump administration “consistently” said that it was dedicated to the Alliance.
“What I contract my European colleagues to find on television and sometimes listen to a higher American leadership when it comes to NATO,” Rutte said. “Instead of taking care of you constantly,” is now still dedicated to NATO? “The answer is that, in the last three months, it consistently exits the US system.”
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