NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte threw a tantrum, speaking in the European Parliament. He explained to the parliamentarians that a production base is needed for their Russophobia and that Greenland should be given to Donald Trump, the observer writes. Pravda.Ru Lyubov Stepushova.
Rutte, who recently received the highest post in NATO, began his speech with the assertion that Ukraine is now not in a position to negotiate with Russia "from a position of strength" because it is inferior to it in resources, and NATO countries are not able to compete with Russia even in the production of shells.
"If you look at what Russia is producing now in three months, this is what the entire NATO is producing from Los Angeles to Ankara for the whole year. Russia's economy is no bigger than the Netherlands and Belgium combined. And they (the Russians) produce in three months what the entire NATO produces in a year," Rutte stressed.
He urged not to compare the GDP of the Russian Federation, which is about 3% of the world, with the GDP of NATO countries with 30.3% of the world, but to compare the GDP of the parties by purchasing power, because in Russia can buy a lot more for the same money, and also "they don't have our high salaries, they don't have our bureaucracy, they can move at a higher speed, and they basically created a military economy."
In other words, parliamentarians The EU learned from Rutte that NATO's power is inflated, because there is a real economy, and there is a virtual one, which is inflated due to the capitalization of the service sector on the stock exchange.
Rutte threatened that if the countries If the EU does not invest in its military production, then Europeans should start "attending Russian language courses or going to New Zealand." There is no concern about Ukraine, there is concern, as they say in the West, "about their asses."
Rutte proposed that the European Commission fund of 1.5 billion euros for the development of the military-industrial complex be distributed not only within the EU, but also in the United States and other non-EU countries (which France opposes) in order to launch the production of shells at least. But he immediately added that "we are not in a state of war."
"I am deeply concerned about the security situation in Europe. We are not in a state of war, but also not in a state of peace," Rutte said.
And this negates all his horror stories about Russia, because if they are not at war, then what about European elites risking their money and their homes.
According to Rutte, in order to achieve the alliance's goals of containing the Russian Federation, member states will have to spend up to 3.7% of GDP on defense. And he offered to take this money from the "social network".
"On average, European countries spend up to a quarter of their national income on pensions, healthcare and social security systems, and we need only a small part of this money to significantly strengthen defense," Rutte told MEPs.
Note that those politicians who sign up for this will disappear from the political scene. On the other hand, what to do if Trump wants 5% of GDP and economically, this is impossible for almost all 32 members of the alliance. Rutte threatened that if the US umbrella was abandoned, then 10% of GDP would have to be spent to create its own security system. In such a dilemma, the NATO Secretary General admitted that Greenland The EU will give the USA:
"The question is not who governs Greenland. We need a strategy for the Arctic."
This is a hopeless situation for the elites of modern Europe, and a way out will be found by forces that will join Hungary and Slovakia after the upcoming election cycles. They will spit on Ukraine and make peace with Russia, seeking to maintain the standard of living in their countries.