Marco Rubio says the US will “continue” in NATO, but insisted on increasing the target of protection cost by 5% | International
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has tried to send a calm message to his NATO partners at the first meeting between Alliance ministers since Donald Trump returned to White House. Rubio rejected the fears that the United States would be withdrawn from the NATO, which was described as “hysteria and hyperbol”, but many of its allies sought certainly assurance in the first visit of the US Diplomacy head Brussels. Washington continues in the Atlantic Alliance, Rubio says, although it is priced: member states must Adherence to increase your defense cost to 5% of GDP Not immediately in the future, with the “real way” to achieve that goal. So far, the target is 2%, but Trump has already talked about 5% in a few days after taking office in January.
“The United States is active in NATO as usual. The hysteria and hyperboles I see in the media are not justified. President Trump has made it clear that he will support NATO. We will continue in NATO,” Rubio Brussels participated in foreign miners as soon as he reached the headquarters of the Coalition.
In fact, Washington hopes that other members of Washington will do more and reach 5% GDP in a calendar, however, not fixing. “We want to leave here in a realistic way to fulfill the promise of reaching the 5%cost of the GDP,” said Rubio, which said, “It should also increase its percentage of the United States”.
According to NATO data, know that its own country is still away from that goal, dedicated to 3.38% of its GDP in his GDP in 2024, and at the annual summit in the Hague in June, this commitment is now 3% or 3.5% -, Rubio has made it clear: this is not an immediate goal. But, he insisted that “the road is true”.
American, Eve Spanish Foreign Minister Jose talked on the phone with Manual Alberes – Spain is at the tail of defense cost, without setting a commitment in 2014, “Allies are in the most developed economies in the world and, therefore,” they have the ability to do more. “
“We understand that this is a commitment. We need to do it every year in our country. I assure you that we have internal needs, but we prefer to protect the role we played in the world, and we want to do the same.”
“And by internal policies, after decades of vast social security networks, they may not want to get rid of it and invest more in national security, but in recent years, the incidents in recent years are a reminder that hard power is a resistance as a resistance to a big earth war,” he is indirectly referring to countries like Spine. Government President Pedro Sanchez, European attempts to increase the mass defense of Europe ” Social or environmental cost”.
Although they are considered “hyperboles”, the fears of withdrawal from the US umbrella are very real to their European allies in NATO to their European allies. Not only because of Trump threats before returning to the White House, but in a high American honorable visit to Brussels, during the previous visit of Defense Secretary Pete Hegset, he is no longer in Europe by telling his European peers to his European peers. One of the preferences of the new appointment in the Belgian capital is to obtain Washington’s guarantee that it is committed to the alliance, which is an important Pillar in existence of almost 76 years.
In fact, NATO General Secretary, Mark Route, addressed the issue this Thursday. The USA “in Europe (…) has no plans to suddenly reduce its presence in its presence, but, as it is super power, we know it is to attend other scenes,” he said before journalists, Europe insisted that Washington’s desire was not new. In this sense, the Dutchman insisted on the summit – which gives the final exit pistol for appointment in the Hague – in which Canada and Europeans are already in it. In recent months, from Germany to Sweden or Poland, at the cost of more than 4%, many countries declared commitments, suppose that “Berlin’s wall fall” is a “great increase” in defense.
5% without moving the target – many in the short term – the speech in NATO to increase the cost, reiterated many ministers in Brussels this Thursday and the informal summit of EU defense ministers at Warsa Complicates the Spanish calendar. The government has pledged to accelerate the calendar to fulfill its first 2% ATED -tasted Spanish military expenditure in 2029. Sanchez is expected to announce a new calendar before the Heg Summit at the end of June.
