US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has called NATO European members to increase their role in defense of Europe as the United States focuses on defending the Pacific of the alliance.
This is such a step that he says that possibly European colleagues will need to increase defense spending from 2% of GDP to about 5% of GDP.
“We can talk about the value about all. Thursday at NATO headquarters in Brussels.
Last year, NATO European colleagues collectively spent 2% of their GDP, which was about 380 billion dollars to set a 2% defense spending target in 2014. The US currently spends about 3.5% of its GDP on defense. Canada, other non-European NATO colleagues, currently spends about 1.4% of its GDP on defense.
“NATO is a great coalition, the most successful defense alliance in history, but to bear for the future, our colleagues must do more to protect Europe,” Hegseth said. He emphasized that the description of Chinese aggression is “one in the Pacific is that the real United States can only be led.”
Hey America does not seek conflict with China, nor does it feel that the conflict with China is indispensable, but he said that the administration should work with the Allies so that they are not only iconic, not only, not only Indo -Can find out in Pacific fixation. ,
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On Wednesday, Hegseth said it is an “unrealistic object” to keep the boundaries of Ukraine’s pre-infection, which was against Russian aggression, as it was expected that Ukraine would join NATO. He advocated the end of a conversation for the war with a safety guarantee supported by European and non-European soldiers, which would not include American forces.
German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius said that the potential membership of Ukraine in NATO should be accepted and no region should be decided before the peace talks began, Hegseth Ki Ki Ki as the “concession” made by the United States as the “concession” made by the United States Referring to the comments.
“Vladimir Putin responded to strength,” Hegaseth said on Thursday that when the US was reducing Ukraine’s Ukraine leverage.
Referring to Putin, he said, “Nobody is going to get everything they want, understanding who did aggression in the first place,” he said, referring to Putin.
NATO general secretary Mark Rutt gave his support for high defense spending and did not join the alliance, defending Hegseth’s comments on Ukraine. Rute said on Thursday that NATO should “surgery that Vladimir Putin never tried again to attack Ukraine,” Hey said, “It is never a promise to Ukraine that a puma deal is never a promise for Ukraine As part of, they will be part of NATO.
The European Union’s top diplomat warned that no peace deal between the United States and Russia – without Ukraine or the European Union – would fail.
“Trump says the murder should be stopped. Putin can stop the murder by bombing Ukraine. If there is a will, it is notable, “Kaza Kalas said, the high representative of the European Union for foreign affairs and security policy. He said that no agreement without Ukraine contains the amount for appeasement in the table.
Kalas’ comments reflected several NATO colleagues at Thursday’s meeting, after the signs of US President Donald Trump and Trump’s signal, which speaks on Ukraine between two bereaves.
After Thursday’s NATO minister’s meeting, Hegseth said the Pentagon said that the Pentagon said with the leaders, “bilateral defense cooperation, Endo’s Eastern Flack and Poland leaders Was as a model.
Some information was provided for this report Associated Press, Egens France Press and Reuters.
