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Published on: 23/01/2025 | 08:28:48
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NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte warns that a Russian victory over Ukraine would undermine the dissuasive force of the world’s biggest military alliance. “If Ukraine loses then to restore the deterrence of the rest of NATO again, it will be a much, much higher price than what we are contemplating at this moment in terms of ramping up our spending, it would be trillions extra,” he says. Russia’s Western backers must “step up and not scale back the NATO leaders agree that each member country should spend at least 2% of gross domestic product on their military budgets. Poland and Estonia spend most in GDP terms. “You cannot ask the American people to expand the umbrella of NATO when the current members aren’t paying their fair share,” Grenell says. Vladimir Putin is an outcast and an indicted war criminal, Sikorski says. “I would suggest that Putin has to earn the summit, that if he gets it early, it elevates him beyond his significance,” he adds.
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