RUTTE DEFENDS U.S. COMMITMENT TO NATO AMID FEARS OF ABANDONMENT

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00:00Let me pull up the next question.

00:02Maria Elena Guzman from the United Kingdom and Spain.

00:06How do you assess the reliability of the United States as a NATO ally?

00:10And what steps can NATO take to maintain unity and trust within the alliance?

00:14This question I got many times, particularly since January.

00:18And basically there were two questions.

00:20Question number one was, Mark, is the US still with us?

00:24Yes, they are.

00:25You might want to turn on your television when Emmanuel Macron is visiting.

00:29The Oval Office, when Keir Starmer is visiting the Oval Office, when Georgia Maloney is visiting.

00:34Hey, by the way, when I was visiting, you might want to see that footage.

00:38There is total commitment by the US president and the US senior leadership to NATO.

00:43However, it comes with an expectation.

00:46An expectation is that we will finally deal with this huge pebble in the shoe, this huge irritant,

00:51which is that we are not spending enough as Europeans and Canadians.

00:56And they want us to equalize with what the US is spending.

01:00And when it comes to this famous 5%, the US is, well, basically they are there.

01:08When you look at what they spend on core, but also on all the defense and security related

01:14investments.

01:15But they want to equalize what they are spending with us.

01:19And for us, of course, the main argument is not to equalize.

01:23Yes, that is important because it is fair.

01:25But the real reason to do this, the first reason to do this, is the Russia threat.

01:29So these things come together.

01:31And then the second question was, okay, so the US will stay with us.

01:34They are committed to Article 5.

01:36We believe you, Mark.

01:36But hey, then they might pull down the troop numbers in Europe without making pre-announcements.

01:42And Sakhir, our most senior commander in NATO, might be a European, a Brit or a German leading

01:51the military side of the alliance.

01:53There are many reasons why it is an American, because America is delivering all these enablers

01:57to NATO, also in Europe.

01:58So you want a US senior general to lead the military alliance on the military side.

02:05I said, well, okay, I don't think it will happen.

02:07And hey, guess what?

02:09The new Supreme Allied Commander has been announced.

02:11And last time I checked his passport, it was US.

02:14So that didn't happen.

02:16So my message to my European colleagues is stop worrying so much.

02:21Start to make sure that you get investment plans done, that you get industrial base up and

02:26running, that the support for Ukraine remains at a higher level.

02:29Luckily, it is still today.

02:31I mean, this is what you should work on.

02:32And stop running around being worried about the US.

02:36They are their risks.

02:37There are definitely other places we need to be worried about.

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