Associated Press – Dec 13, 2024
The Nato secretary general, Mark Rutte (sbove), has said that Vladimir Putin wants to “wipe Ukraine off the map” and could come after other parts of Europe next, as he urged Europeans to press their governments to increase defence spending.
“It is time to shift to a wartime mindset,” Rutte told security experts and analysts at the Carnegie Europe thinktank in Brussels.
He said people should gird themselves for the prospect that Russia might try to use “swarms of drones” in Europe as it has to deadly effect in Ukraine.
Putin “is trying to crush our freedom and way of life”, Rutte said. The former Dutch prime minister listed Russia’s attacks on Georgia in 2008, the annexation of Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula in 2014, and the all-out invasion of the country launched almost three years ago.
“How many more wake-up calls do we need? We should be profoundly concerned. I know I am,” he said. “Russia is preparing for long-term confrontation. With Ukraine, and with us.”
Rutte’s inaugural speech amid reports that Nato members are considering increasing defence spending to 3% of every member’s national budget – it is currently 2%.
Such a steep rise might help to placate the incoming US president, Donald Trump, who has consistently criticised European countries for relying too heavily on US cash to fund the alliance.
The speech on Thursday came just over two months after Rutte took office as Nato’s top civilian official. He has since toured the capitals of the 32 allies, including a visit to the US to meet with P Trump.
The UK prime minister has said he wants to increase Britain’s defence spending to 2.5% of GDP.
Nato has been a staunch backer of Ukraine and has helped most of its members funnel weapons, ammunition and other support into the country. But Trump’s return, and pledge to end the war quickly, has fuelled concern that an unfavourable truce might be forced on Kyiv.
Asked by the Associated Press how damaging a quick and shoddy peace agreement might be, Rutte said that “a bad deal means Putin coming out on top, and that will have worldwide ramifications, not only on Europe and Ukraine”. He insisted that Ukraine must be involved in any peace talks.
Trump routinely complains that US allies in Nato are not spending enough on defence. Rutte said Russia’s military spending was likely to amount to 7-8% of its GDP next year – far more than any Nato ally – while its defence industry churns out tanks, armoured vehicles and ammunition.
Putin also has the support of China, Iran and North Korea.
Rutte noted that defence spending has risen sharply in Europe, with 23 allies expected to reach Nato target of putting 2% of GDP into their military budgets. But he added: “I can tell you, we are going to need a lot more than 2%.”
Rutte listed a series of recent “hostile actions” by Russia against Nato allies, including cyber-attacks, assassinations, an explosion at a Czech ammunition depot, the jamming of radars in the Baltic region to disrupt air traffic, and the “weaponisation” of migrants to destabilise Europe.
“These attacks are not just isolated incidents. They are the result of a coordinated campaign to destabilise our societies and discourage us from supporting Ukraine,” he said. “They circumvent our deterrence and bring the front line to our front doors.”
Beyond increased defence spending in Europe, Rutte noted that Nato now has tens of thousands of troops on high readiness should they be needed to defend allied territory.
“With all this, our deterrence is good – for now. But it’s tomorrow I’m worried about,” he said, and warned that “we are not ready for what is coming our way in four to five years. Danger is moving towards us at full speed.”
“What is happening in Ukraine could happen here too, and regardless of the outcome of this war, we will not be safe in the future unless we are prepared to deal with danger,” Rutte added.
He appealed to governments to provide the defence industry with “the big orders and long-term contracts they need to rapidly produce more and better capabilities”. He urged the industry to boost production for defences against drones and other new war tactics.
He added that “freedom does not come for free” to the estimated 1 billion people living in the Euro-Atlantic area.
“If we don’t spend more together now to prevent war, we will pay a much, much, much higher price later to fight it. Not billions, but trillions of euros. That’s if we come out on top, and that’s if we win,” he said.
This idiot said he expects Europeans to give up parts of their pension for a war fund. What, so the 1% can then send our kids and grandkids to war to die for their war spoils? After that all they’d have left to tell us to give up is stop eating for one day a week. Then two…
Dress me up for battle, when all I want is peace.
Those of us who pay the price, come home with the least.
Harvest for the World. The Isley Brothers.
As Alex Christoforou has said, and I paraphrase ” Europe will be a tourist destination and arms producer, but with the problem that the factories will have difficulty keeping their costs down due to high energy prices “
This NATO dude looks like a pedaphile, and is scared that Putin will stop the child trafficking and body parts racket that nato likes. And now this dude spreads fear porn, to save their way of life and freedom.
The ONLY “Wartime Mindset” that Euro’tardia needs is to bend over, touch its toes…
and expose its well-puckered sphincter not to a “pecker”
– Mark Rutte, by the looks of him, being a prime proponent of that particular “predilection” –
but to an incoming Sarmat Missile! 😂
Re that “incoming Sarmat missile”
And “No!” – in case youre wondering – it WON’T be Vaseline-tipped..
so best prepare by slapping some on beforehand! 🤣
In Holland they call this kind of faggot ‘een bruine ridder’ (a brown knight)
I wonder why..
Time 2 put this a-hole 6 ft under!
Mark – Of The Beast – Rutte / (s)he is now one of the warmongering top whores for the RotSchild j. bankers cabal that founded israhell after WW II in 1948 in its new function of gencec of ZioNato…..
rec. earlier https://www.somo.nl/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Gazprom-in-the-Netherlands.pdf
SOMO Paper* | March 2022 1SOMO Paper `Enabling Putin’s war / The ties between Amsterdam’s financial centre & Gazprom´
`Gazprom: The long arm of the Kremlin…key geopolitical instrument of the Russian state…
P.’s war in Ukraine has put the spotlight on the Western enablers of his autocratic rule & his oligarch associates**…
Gazprom’s business activities – the world’s largest gas producer- in Amsterdam, the Netherlands /serviced by a rangeof accountancy and law firms is the most lucrative jewel in P.’s crown…
The offshore financial center of Amsterdam, functions as the world’s largest “conduit” tax haven i.e. the world’s prime intermediary gateway for global capital / attracting multi-national corporations – incl. a range of corporations tied to numerous authoritarian regimes across the world – that operate out of its financial centre….
The Netherlands’ policy of attracting capital by offering tax advantages has led, in the current context, to what amounts to giving tax breaks to and subsidizing P.’s war in Ukraine…
The Dutch system attracts strongmen, oligarchs and dubious foreign wealth, while robbing many countries of crucial tax revenues…
* “We put the spotlight on all of P.’s enablers: accountants, tax lawyers, trust service providers & regulators foremost the Dutch Central Bank (DNB), the tax authority, and the Dutch Ministry of Finance”
(**https://buffalochronicle.com/2022/03/17/cia-has-video-footage-of-putin-engaging-in-oral-sex-with-his-judo-instructor/ Vlad P.´s ” “rich, powerful, well-connected Russian judocracy.”
March 14 2022 https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/7658171/advances-slower-than-expected-putin-ally/ Viktor Zolotov (right) has been at Vlad P. ‘s side for more than 13 years.)
concluZion : Mark – Of The Beast – Rutte has been the longest serving Dutch PM from 2010 to 2024
On 24 February 2022 Russia invaded Ukraine in a major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War which started in 2014…..s/he knew all along / Your Honour….
CIA O
The picture of the Molotov cocktail https://buffalochronicle.com/2022/03/17/cia-has-video-footage-of-putin-engaging-in-oral-smate ex-with-his-judo-instructor/ comrade of Vlad P. – Victor Zolotov – was missing in this Buffalo piece of evidence …
Vladimir Bukovsky / tireless opponent of Soviet leaders & Pres. Vladimir P. of Russia, in his study at his home in Cambridge, England, Aug. 16 2016 (Andrew Testa/The NYT)
via https://fitzinfo.net/soviet-sexuality/ a bunch of interesting articles https://www.adn.com/nation-world/2016/12/09/foes-of-russia-say-child-pornography-is-planted-to-ruin-them/ By Andrew Higgins, The NYT 10 December 2016
Remember https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/alexander-litvinenko-accused-vladimir-putin-5051412 Vlad P. – mason 33 – exposed as pedo by Alexander Litvinenko….
CIA O
Equally interesting how “they” mutilate https://buffalochronicle.com/2022/03/17/cia-has-video-footage-of-putin-engaging-in-oral-sex-with-his-judo-instructor/ the Buffalo link on P.
P. is in total control of Drumpf – think Watergate Bob Woodward recent book……
https://rielpolitik.com/2019/08/09/the-pedo-file-watergate-was-pedo-gate-70-of-top-us-officials-compromised/ “The Watergate break-in was strictly based on one thing – the pedophile records that were being kept at the Democratic National Headquarters…..
I am confident President Richard Nixon and his good buddy ‘the Reverend’ Billy Graham were named in the Watergate pedophile records, because I was sex trafficked to both men as a young child…”
November 2006 https://www.informationliberation.com/?id=18244 Alexander Litvinenko (on) the Kremlin Pedophile …
CIA O
Get a load of Rutte trying to act butch. I agree with Peter and karel above, Mark Rutte certainly strikes me as the sort who can’t get enough of being on the receiving end of the sodomy plow-boys…a human Chinese finger trap, but those aren’t fingers… I’m sure that Shlomo and the Jew Crew have some choice footage of Rutte letting it all hang out at mens public toilets, and molesting some poor kids, which is why he is running his mouth so much as an overly-eager script reader in this dog & pony show of distractionary theater.
Rutte vomited out, “Putin is trying to crush our freedom and way of life”… You are ALL trying to crush our freedom and way of life, you putrid shit-stain. What I’d really like to see Putin crush is Rutte’s testicles and kneecaps, and then his f*cking skull.
Rutte sure likes to talk tough for a guy who has clearly never been in a street fight his whole life, with the closest he has ever come to physical combat being getting his ass paddled while a ball-gag was stuffed in his mouth.
But I say we give Rutte the opportunity to show how butch he actually is and demonstrate true leadership by kitting him up, handing him a rifle, and dropping him off at the Russian front in Jewkraine. He would royally shit himself before getting within 500 miles of the front, and not just because his poop-chute is so blown out from all the rammings it has endured over the years.
RUTTE + WARMONGERS TO THE FRONT !
@UB
Great comment…. says it all.. and then some! 🤣😂😅