Mark Rutte

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte: The UK has a huge advantage when it comes to innovation, technology, universities. The UK is at the forefront.

NATO Secretary General, Mark Rutte: Strikes yesterday on trains in Ukraine show Putin's desperation.

NATO Secretary General, Mark Rutte: Russia is growing increasingly reckless as it continues its "terrible war" against Ukraine, including targeting infrastructure upon which Ukraine depends.

NATO Secretary General, Mark Rutte: We have all the response options, including making sure Ukraine has what it needs to stay in the fight.

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte:

All for one and one for all. That is how NATO works. Russia wants to divide us, but we are united.

Russia wants to stop us helping Ukraine, but we are going to do more for Ukraine. Russia wants to act tough, but we are stronger.

Russia’s actions are a sign of weakness and a symptom of its failure to get its way in Ukraine.

NATO chief Rutte: countries have no choice but to increase support for Ukraine.

NATO Secretary General Rutte: "Russia has grown increasingly reckless."

Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama: "Mark Rutte is by far the best handler of Donald Trump that exists."

NATO chief Rutte on Russia's war on Ukraine: "grown-up democracies" shouldn't attack other countries in the 21st century. "It's kind of crazy to do that."

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte at the Ankara Summit:
I expect our allies today to reconfirm, in the strongest possible terms, that Iran must never get its hands on a nuclear capability. This remains a fundamental red line for the entire Alliance.

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte: Latest US Strikes on Iran Were Absolutely Necessary for Global Security

NATO's Rutte in Ankara:

"Show Russia, and all those watching today, that the transatlantic defense industrial base is mobilizing with purpose. Not in anger, but for our collective security."

NATO Secretary General Rutte in Ankara:

We will launch a counter-drone marketplace.

The aim is to help procure counter-drone capabilities at scale and speed.

NATO Secretary General Rutte in Ankara:

Today, we are launching the NATO Drone Edge Initiative. Through this initiative, allies are investing over 40 billion dollars in counter-drone capabilities over the next five years.

Allies are also committing to train five times as many drone operators in their armed forces by the end of 2027.

NATO's Rutte in Ankara:

You could argue that Trump is the third POTUS since Eisenhower who has been able to bring about a situation where the Europeans and the Canadians spend the same as the Americans.

NATO's Rutte in Ankara:

We will announce tens of billions of dollars in new contracts at the Defence Industry Forum on Tuesday.

NATO's Sec. Gen. Rutte in Ankara:

European allies and Canada are now on a trajectory to equalize their defense spending with the U.S.

NATO's Rutte arrives in Ankara for the NATO Summit.

NATO's SG Rutte: NATO's message to the defence industry is to scale up

NATO Secretary General Rutte: Allies including Germany are boosting defense spending.

Reporter: Turkey wants F-35 fighter jets. Are you going to Turkey with a big gift bag?

Trump: Yeah. I think so. He’s a member of NATO. I'm going to probably do something that's gonna make him very happy. Except for the fact that it was being held in Turkey by President Erdogan, I don't think I would have gone to it.

Rutte: You would come for me?

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NATO's Rutte to Fox News:

When it comes to NATO, I know there is disappointment,

But let's also see that these are isolated cases, because there is something more to say about this.

Country after country, ally after ally after ally, have made their bases available for Epic Fury.

Thousands of sorties, planes taking off from European bases to support Epic Fury, and therefore Europe being this platform of power projection for the U.S.

NATO's Rutte to Fox News:

500 U.S. planes took off from U.S. bases in Italy to support Operation Epic Fury.

This is massive

Secretary of War Hegseth delivered brief remarks alongside NATO Secretary General Rutte.

NATO chief Mark Rutte says the reduction of U.S. contributions to NATO’s crisis-response forces has taken effect immediately, with other allies stepping up to fill the gaps. - Reuters