NATO chairman Mark Rute Is called for 400 percent boost To increase air and missile capabilities and its demand Defense expenditure Across the alliance, five percent of the voice of doom has increased the sound of a scream.
A return on Cold war Level of Defense expenditure However, there is not a historical petition with a shortage of military-industrial complex.
It is a sad acceptance that Peace dividend Came with the collapse of the Soviet Union, a criminal struggle was carried out by the West in a futile war in Afghanistan and in Iraq, which expanded the list of people with a good reason to hate democracy.
But there were already a lot. Vladimir Putin is one of them, Xi Jinping is another – Donald Trump is running for his rank. There is increasing autocracy worldwide, while democracy has been consumed by decency.
“Wishing thoughts will not keep us safe,” Rute said, who called NATO to become “strong, fair and more deadly coalition”.
“The fact is, we need a quantum leap in our collective defense. The fact is that, we must have more force and abilities to implement our defense plans.
“The fact is, the danger will not disappear even when the war ends in Ukraine.”
He is right, of course. But he is the general secretary of a military alliance. He is beating the drum for more money because he wants to see the return of those days when crazy, mutually assurance destruction, the sword that was hung on every head on the planet.
In the bad days, the nuclear war was the terror that maintained peace among the superpowers. He did his rivals through proxy – often in Africa.
Marxist Mozambique, Angola, and Ethiopia tolerated the civil wars for decades, while the Western -backed rebels fought the Moscow -backed governments from the 60s to the 80s.
Sometimes, as in Vietnam and Korea, the West sent its forces into the war – but the pain for ideological scholarship which divided the world, was known as the third world at that time.
In South America, CIA-baked wells removed leaders who were considered “Com-Enclose” by Washington, where Republicans and Democrats were nervous of being red under the bed in their back yard. Kennedy’s struggle with Khrushchev came close to WW3 during the Cuba missile crisis.
But it was the West’s ability to exclude the Soviet Union of the Soviet Union that brought the iron curtain down on the Soviet Empire.
The Soviet Union spent between 10 and 20 percent of GDP on the army, while NATO was spending half. Moscow depended on the high oil process for its economic good, while the aggregation of farming and industrial policies stopped innovation. When the oil crashed from $ 120/barrel to $ 20s/barrels in the 1980s, social and political needs for improvement became heavy.
According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, Russia is estimated to spend at least 7.2 percent of its GDP on military, but it is not responsible for the cost of social welfare payments or administering areas occupied in Ukraine.
A cheap option for Putin in dividing the focus of the West is to encourage semi-lover private military companies to operate in North Africa-like the Cold War.
Groups such as Wagner have expanded their operations from gardener, Niger, Sahel to Khartum, to attract resources and focus away from Ukraine.
But in EuropeRute said, there is no match for NATO Russia.
He said, “Our terrorists also need thousands and armored vehicles and tanks, millions and artillery shells, and we have to double our competent capabilities such as logistics, supply, transportation and medical support.”
After the end of the Cold War, the cut in military expenses was based on the assumption that a western style method of life would be adopted in Russia.
But the country fell into gangsterism to a large extent and has been observed by many people that Putin’s more organized elite has been saved, which is less than the fear and condemnation of the vigorous Soviet-style of “West”.
This may be a Moscow myth that NATO distinguishes the Russian Federation but it is a widely considered in the purview of Putin.
Rutte suggested that the West is always safe for democracy.
“Wishing thinking will not keep us safe. We cannot overcome the danger … hope is not a strategy. So NATO has to be a strong, fair and more deadly alliance.”
In the UK, Sir Kir Stamor Since April 2027, 2.5 percent of GDP on defense is committed to spending domestic product, with a 3 percent increase in the next Parliament, a timetable that can spread by 2034.
But according to the head of NATO, it is well low.
After Mr. Rutte’s visit to Britain, he spent 5 percent of the GDP (GDP) on defense as part of a strong investment plan for the alliance after proposing to the members of the block.
The target will require nations to increase core defense spending up to 3.5 percent of GDP, while the remaining 1.5 percent will be made up of “defense-related expenses”.
NATO leaders will meet in Hague later this month, when the targets spending 5 percent by 2035 will be discussed. The leaders collected in the Hague will all agree that more should be spent.
Something, if any, will happen Learn to sell that idea His voters.
But, as Rute warned: “If we do not do this then you learn to speak Russian in a better way.”
