NATO Secretary urges boosting defense spending before Trump returns to power

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte made new efforts today, Wednesday, for European countries to boost defense spending, to fill a budget shortfall that US President-elect Donald Trump blamed his country’s allies for in his first term, which greatly undermined confidence.
NATO leaders agreed to stop the reduction in defense spending that began at the end of the Cold War and moved towards spending 2% of GDP, after Russia annexed the Crimean Peninsula a decade ago.
Trump, who will take office on January 20, threatened not to defend “negligent” countries.

Military preparedness

Rutte told reporters after chairing a meeting of NATO ministers in Brussels: “If you want to keep deterrence at the current level, at 2%, it is not enough. We can now defend ourselves and no one should attack us, but I would say the same thing after four or five.” “Years.”
Under new top-secret plans, NATO intends to put 300,000 troops on readiness to move to its eastern flank within 30 days.
The plans show which Allies would respond to an attack anywhere from the Arctic to the Baltic Sea across the Atlantic and east to the Black Sea.