NATO Secretary -General: The coalition’s military budget should be 3.5 times

NATO Secretary -General Mark Route said today (Saturday) that the coalition’s member states should increase their defense costs to five percent of GDP.

US President Donald Trump has called on NATO members to allocate five percent of their GDP to the military budget, a figure that is a significant 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 counter 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 months, a consensus on this goal will be formed” and emphasized that “we must prioritize the defense field in order to increase defense costs.” These statements mean that governments 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 spent. According to Route, it is clear that NATO needs more air defense systems, long -range missiles and tanks.

“We have not spent 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 countries should not think that the US presence in NATO would continue forever.

Rate went 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 agreement is a bad agreement.”

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