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NATO Chief Mark Rutte calls for 'shift to a wartime mindset'
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15/01/2025
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte emphasized that NATO currently isn't ready to meet security challenges and called for increased defence spending.
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Defense ministers from over 20 NATO members are meeting in Brussels to discuss security
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and upcoming challenges to the alliance.
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NATO's chief Mark Root opened the two-day session with a clear goal, shifting to a wartime
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mindset.
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To prevent war, we need to prepare for it.
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It's time to shift to a wartime mindset.
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And this means we need to make our defenses even stronger by spending more on defense,
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producing more, and better defense capabilities.
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Russia is hard at work to try to weaken our democracies and chip away at our freedom.
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And it is not alone.
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It has China, North Korea, and Iran by its side.
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Root warned the alliance members that Europe's future is at stake, and NATO must do all it
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can to keep the people safe amidst growing security threats to the region.
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The next summit, in six months' time, will take place in The Hague.
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I think this is enough.
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