NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte warned EU countries of the need to increase military spending above the current 2% of GDP.
“If we don’t do this, in 4-5 years we will have to take Russian language courses or go to New Zealand,” he said in the European Parliament.
He also noted that “Ukraine is now unable to negotiate from a position of strength.”
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The outgoing US administration has invested a record sum of $1.3 trillion in defense procurements and research, US President Joe Biden said.
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"That's more than America did in any four-year period, during the Cold War," he stressed.