The need for NATO members to increase their spending on defense has put the defence alliance in a “crisis mode,” NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte tells a panel at the World Economic Forum in Davos.
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00:00How will NATO support Ukraine going forward?
00:05So we are really in crisis mode here.
00:07So first money, much more to be spent, fast.
00:10The ones not on 2% have to get to the 2% in the next couple of months.
00:15We cannot wait any longer.
00:16And then we have collectively to move up,
00:19and we will decide on the exact number later this year,
00:21but it will be considerably more than that too.
00:23And then on industry production, we are really in a bad place here.
00:28First of all, that we really have to step up and not scale back the support for Ukraine.
00:33We have to change the trajectory of the war which is ongoing.
00:38And so far as we know, the front line is moving in the wrong direction.
00:41And if we get a bad deal, it would only mean that we will see the president of Russia
00:47high-fiving with the leaders of North Korea, Iran and China.
00:51And we cannot accept that.
00:53That would be geopolitically a big mistake.
00:57So it has to be sustainable, and for it to be sustainable,
01:00we have to make sure that Putin will never, ever, ever again
01:03try to get a square kilometer of Ukraine in the future.