NATO Sec. Gen. Mark Rutte Credits Trump For Defense Spending Increases

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At a press briefing at the NATO Summit in the Hague, Netherlands, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte told reporters “European allies and Canada will do more of the heavy lifting” following pressure from President Trump.

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00:01Secretary General, I would like to come back to Article 5.

00:06Did President Trump promise in the meeting that he would stand by the allies until the

00:13end of his term?

00:16And if so, did he promise it without any conditions?

00:21Can I ask you, and not you, you're a journalist, so you are totally, of course, free to ask

00:26all those questions, but through you, to some politicians in Europe and Canada, to stop

00:31worrying.

00:32The United States is totally committed to NATO.

00:35The United States is totally committed to Article 5.

00:38How many times do we want them to say this?

00:41And as I said before, we have now had half a year when we constantly ask the US, are you

00:46with us, with NATO, with Article 5?

00:49So let's look for another country in NATO, one of the other 31, Iceland, the Netherlands,

00:54France or Canada, for the next half year to answer that question.

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