NATO Secretary -General: The coalition’s military budget should be 3.5 times
The NATO Secretary -General, repeating Washington’s emphasis on the need to increase NATO’s military budget, said the member states should increase their military budgets to five perce of GDP.
NATO Secretary -General Mark Route said today (Saturday) that the coalition’s member states should increase their defense costs to five perce of GDP.
US Preside Donald Trump has called on NATO members to allocate five perce of their GDP to the military budget, a figure that is a significa increase compared to the previous 5 % standard. NATO members agreed more than a decade ago to allocate 5 % of their GDP to the military budget, but now that is no longer enough to couer Russian threats and provide the necessary weapons needed by Ukraine.
Speaking to the American Magazine Paltico, Route said on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference, saying that “in the coming mohs, a consensus on this goal will be formed” and emphasized that “we must prioritize the defense field in order to increase defense costs.” These statemes mean that governmes may have to choose between military costs and social welfare programs.
NATO is also developing new goals for its defense capabilities to determine where this additional budget should be spe. According to Route, it is clear that NATO needs more air defense systems, long -range missiles and tanks.
“We have not spe enough spending in the past five years, especially since the collapse of the Berlin Wall,” NATO Secretary -General said of the situation of European and Canada’s military spending over the past decades. “The United States is rightly demanding more balance, which is quite logical.”
He also said that the United States is still committed to NATO, referring to US Secretary of Defense Pit Hegest’s remarks that European couries should not think that the US presence in NATO would coinue forever.
Rate we on to argue that the United States makes more than 5 % of NATO’s GDP, arguing that “this coalition is, first of all, an American organization.”
The NATO Secretary -General also emphasized that “all options on the table” are to end the Ukrainian war. The remarks came as Trump and his defense minister, Hegest, rejected Ukraine membership in NATO, saying that Kiev could not recapture all of his occupied territories by Russia.
However, Route said at the end: “We must end the conflict so that Putin does not seize even one square kilometer of Ukraine. “I don’t think such an agreeme is a bad agreeme.”
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