NATO secretary general, Mark Rutte, congratulated the decision of American president Donald Trump to command what he called the “truly extraordinary” military strikes on Iran in a series of text messages before the military alliance meets in the Netherlands.
These messages, which Trump published on his social media platform, Truth Social, reveals that Rutte was impressed that Trump decided to hit Iranian nuclear sites during the weekend, a decision that the chief of the military alliance declared “no one else dared to do”.
Rutte, who was the Dutch Prime Minister before taking the first job at NATO, said Trump’s order to take the Iranian diet “makes us all safer.”
The messages, of which a spokesperson for Rutte confirmed to CBC News is authentic, were sent for hours before Trump and other world leaders, including Prime Minister Mark Carney, met in The Hague for the NATO summit of this year, a meeting where the accent is on the “stronger, fairer and more lethal” alliance “, according to the organizers.
Operation Midnight Hammer has deployed B-2 spiritual bombers to lower almost half a million bombs in bunker on Iranian nuclear sites. In addition, how Ukraine would have succeeded what it describes as its longest attack against Russia.
Rutte said Trump’s long -standing call to NATO members to spend much more for Defense is starting to bear fruit – and he has personally credited the American president so that members can find more money.
“You fly in another great success in The Hague this evening. It was not easy, but we have all signed them at five percent,” said Rutte, adding that Europe “will pay significantly, as they should, and it will be your victory”.
“Donald, you led us to a really important time, really important for America, Europe and the world,” said Rutte. “You will realize something that no American president for decades could be done.”
Rutte publicly said that it was his goal to have the 32 Alliance members this week to increase defense expenses to five percent of GDP, a key demand from Trump, which has long complained that the United States has been paying too much for the other NATO allies.
NATO members would have concluded a compromise agreement to devote at least 3.5% of GDP to basic military needs by 2035, and 1.5% to wider elements related to safety such as cybersecurity and infrastructure. It is a big jump compared to the goal of two percent in 2014, which is now considered inadequate given the militarization of Russia and other world security threats.
Canada has long been a delay for military spending, but for the Carney watch, it has become much more a priority.
Former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Canada last year would achieve the spending target of the previous NATO in 2032.
Earlier this month, Carney said that the new government led by him this year would hit him this year.
Now Canada and other NATO members may have to go much further. Carney previously expressed his confidence in Canada’s ability to strike the defense infrastructure potion relatively easily given the investments in critical minerals, which are omnipresent in military equipment, can be included.
In an interview with CNN International on Tuesday, Carney said that the expense objective was still a decade and that it is time to understand how to meet Canada’s requirements.
He said that the rejoicing of this new target would cost up to $ 150 billion a year.
“I do not report a bunch of postdated checks for equipment, military equipment today,” he said.
