Mark Rutte
Appearances
Global News Podcast
The Global Story: Does Trump’s return threaten the future of Nato?
But both are true. He did roll his tanks into Ukraine. Why couldn't he roll his tanks into the United Kingdom? Yeah, not a NATO member state. But at the same time, if NATO is not in four or five years able to keep up the deterrence, which is necessary to make sure that Putin will not do that, why would he not roll his tanks into Poland or...
Global News Podcast
The Global Story: Does Trump’s return threaten the future of Nato?
fly out his missiles to the United Kingdom or to The Hague. So there is a risk. And you are right also that already at this moment we are faced with, and I hate this word hybrid, but when you look at cyber attacks, look what happened in the UK with assassination attempts in Salisbury.
Global News Podcast
The Global Story: Does Trump’s return threaten the future of Nato?
When you look at sabotage, what he is doing with jamming in the Baltics of commercial flights, it is presenting a big risk. So that's happening already.
Global News Podcast
The Global Story: Does Trump’s return threaten the future of Nato?
But we will spend more because otherwise... Are you worried he might turn his back though? No, I'm not because it won't come to that. And I don't want to spend more because of Donald Trump. So he's right that we have to spend more. Absolutely. He was right. He is still right. But when you look at the facts, we should not need Donald Trump to decide to spend more on defense.
Global News Podcast
The Global Story: Does Trump’s return threaten the future of Nato?
We have to do it because it is in our interest.