NATO's new chief Mark Rutte pledges support for Ukraine, READY to defend global threats!
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- Опубликовано: 7 окт 2024
- Subscribe here: bit.ly/eudebates As the Netherlands’ former Prime Minister Mark Rutte becomes the new General Secretary of NATO on Tuesday, his leadership skills will be put to the test quickly as the bloc confronts both external threats and vulnerabilities within the alliance.
Rutte, a figurehead in Dutch politics for several decades and prime minister from 2010 to 2024, is well-known as a consummate diplomat and consensus-builder, able to keep often disparate parties and lawmakers on side.
Ascribed the nickname “Teflon Mark,” Rutte has been adept at avoiding political crises at home during his career and he’s likely to need those skills - and adeptness at managing often tricky geopolitical personalities and relationships - to navigate testing times for the NATO alliance.
Not only is the bloc facing the ongoing challenge of the Russia-Ukraine war - a conflict which shows no signs of ending as Russia commits more troops and spending to the fight - but also heightened tensions with superpower China, and “rogue states” North Korea and Iran.
The Western military bloc also faces uncertainties closer to home, most significantly with the U.S. presidential election next month and the potential for a second term in office for former President Donald Trump, a man who has openly criticized and berated NATO members’ spending and the alliance’s posture when it comes to its main adversary, Russia.
Signalling he would put his powers of persuasion into practice in his new role, Rutte said Tuesday that he would be looking to encourage NATO’s 32 members to increase defense spending - a perennial bugbear between member states despite it having broadly improved among member states in recent years, data shows - and to keep the transatlantic bond in the alliance “rock solid.”
“As Secretary General, I will work on three main priorities,” Rutte said as he took over the reins from Jens Stoltenberg during a handover ceremony in Brussels.
“The first is to keep NATO strong and to ensure our defenses remain effective and credible against all threats. For this we need more forces with better capabilities and faster innovation, this requires more investment, because to do more we must spend more,” he said. “There is no cost-free alternative,” he added.
Rutte said his second priority is to step up support for Ukraine and “to bring it ever-closer to NATO” saying Europe’s security depended on an “strong, independent Ukraine.” His third priority is to strengthen partnerships within the alliance, particularly with the European Union and countries around the world with similar values, Rutte said. “Our security has to be a team effort,” Rutte noted.
Commenting on the threat posed by Russia, after repeated warnings by Russian President Vladimir Putin that Moscow is willing to use nuclear weapons if its territory is threatened by Western powers backing Ukraine, Rutte said he didn’t believe there was any immediate risk.
“We hear regular threats from the Kremlin and it’s true that Putin’s nuclear rhetoric is reckless and irresponsible, but at the same time let me make it absolutely clear we do not see any imminent threat of nuclear weapons being used,” Rutte told reporters later Tuesday.
Geopolitical analysts say Rutte faces a raft of challenges as he takes over the military alliance, with immediate tasks including ensuring Ukraine is as strong as possible before probable peace talks with Russia, ensuring crucial defense spending increases among member states and mitigating any fallout from the U.S. election.
“As NATO secretary-general, Rutte will face a different set of challenges” to when he was PM, Armida van Rij, senior research fellow in the Europe Programme at Chatham House said in analysis last week.
“Externally, there is a revisionist Russia and an assertive China. Internally, there are challenges to democracy within the alliance and depleted military supplies. The alliance has just undergone a period of transformation and developed new regional plans through a new force model, which still need to be adequately resourced,” she noted.
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Offcourse he will pledge support, if not then he dissapeares 🤣
yeah telling it like it is: „defence INDUSTRY“…. and never forget to stir and raise russiophobia 🤦♀️
Traitor..
NATO‘s last general secretary. I wonder if he himself knows that.
look at him. he think he just won the ms america pageant lol
and hows he going to get countries to spend more money when europe is collapsing economically?
Ofcourse he pledges support, in real life one does not find so many odiots😂
Imagine you need to redo your house and find people who will do it free of charge as long as you lens them tools 😂😂😂😂
No surprise, because otherwise he would not have got this position.
German and Ukrainian unity.
NATO 32 Partners : Economic Growth and Stability is vital right now . If Europe and America, already not trading with Russia, if EU & US also stop trading with China, their economies will collapse. Right now the biggest buyer of Russia Oil is India : " India surpasses China to become Russia' s top Oil buyer in July ", Reuters. The question is : Why would Larry Fink say in Berlin this week that China is the biggest Russia backer ? : " BlackRock CEO Larry Fink : China is Russia biggest War backer ", Business Insider. This is all to bankrupt Europe and America, not trading , and steal their key Industries: Jet Engines, Aviation and Chips , and specifically: Boeing, Airbus, GE, SNECMA, Intel, ASML, etc. in my opinion a Deal has been made by Modi, Netanyahu and Salman , provoke WW3 inside Europe, and steal the above industries, as well as deport all Palestinians to Europe , and build luxury apartments and new Settlements in Gaza and West Bank.
Great, everything is going east, even Putin's business, how to break the US and Europe, all this is going to ruin
Welcome.
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