NATO allies began to confirm the ground for great defense spending at the Hague summit | NATO news

The United States puts pressure on allies to adopt new goals for defense costs in response to Russian threat.

Members of the world’s leaders are expected to have members, members, members of the NATO North Atlantic Treaty (NATO) summit, the members of the United States are expected to take place.

This Two-day NATO Meeting The increase in global instability on Tuesday, after the ongoing conflicts in Gaza and the Middle East, began in the Hague in the background of global instability. An agreement to significantly increase defense costs in 32 member states on the agenda. This was criticizing the criticism of the US President Donald Trumman’s leadership, the United States has carried a military burden.

Trump, NATO allies demanded the total domestic product (GDP increased by 5 percent, and 2 percent of the current goal is to defend and even defend countries that do not meet the expenditure targets threatened to leave block.

On Tuesday, the European Commission President Ursula Von Der Leyen said that Hague and The Hague, the Hague speaking, NATO members are ready to approve “historical spending targets” in the summit.

“The security architecture we trust for decades can no longer be given,” he described as “once a generation tectonic turn.”

“In recent months, European seeming action, which is unhappy in Europe, took action,” he said. “The European defense finally woke up.”

Speaking before the summit, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte stressed that the United States is “general obligation”, but it has coming to wait for this in defense costs.

Pressure to the United States

At the beginning of this month, US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, in a meeting in Brussels delivered an ultimatum to NATO defense ministers, lean 5 percent expenditure obligation is “Hague’s happening with the peak.”

In response to pressure, the route will approve 5 percent of member countries with a member of the member states in 2032, defense expenditures and 3.5 percent of the remaining 3.5% of member countries.

In response to Russia’s war in 2023, NATO leaders agreed to raise their protection costs from 1.5 percent to 2 percent to 2 percent to 2 percent. However, only 32 members of the Alliance responded to the revised goals.

As some countries like Spain pushed the latest proposed hike unrealistic, other members also announced their plans to significantly ramp in response to the changed security environment.

A large foreign policy address in Berlin on Tuesday, Germany’s Chancellor Friedrich Merz will be the spending of “the strongest conventional army of Europe”, but he responded to the threat of Russia.

“We must be afraid of Russia that Russia wants to continue his war outside Ukraine,” we said.

“We must be so strong that we should be so strong that no one dares to attack us.”

Kremlin: NATO ‘created for conflict’

Leaders of 32 members of the Transatlantic Alliance, including allied countries, including Japan, New Zealand and Ukraine, will take part in the summit.

In the absence of a Kyiv Alliance, NATO’s desire to join the Kremlin was referred to as one of the reasons for the attack on Ukraine in 2022.

Tuesday, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, Moscow said that there are no plans to attack NATO, but “the” union “union that inspires” the anger of Hell. “

“It is an alliance created for the confrontation … This is not a tool of peace and stability,” said Peskov, Reuters news agency.