According to NATO Secretary-General, China will effort to take over Taiwan, ensuring that Russia attacks NATO at the same time. The British regular message diary predicts that Vladimir Putin could hit the Baltic countries – Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, which were formerly part of the USSR.
— Let us not be naive," said Rutte in an interview with the American paper The fresh York Times, pointing out the urgent request to re-arm and increase military budgets.
He added that if Xi Jinping had planned to attack Taiwan, he would first call Vladimir Putin, asking him to distract Europeans by attacking NATO. Most likely, that's what's going to happen. To discourage them, we must do 2 things,” said Rutte.
Russia is armed.
According to him, the North Atlantic Alliance must "be strong adequate for the Russians not to dare do so." Moreover, it should cooperate with the Indo-Pacific region. He pointed out that Russia would rapidly arm itself, and so besides the Western states must increase their defence spending.
“We are facing a immense geopolitical challenge. It is primarily Russia that rebuilds at a rate and at an unprecedented rate in fresh history. Currently, the Russians produce 3 times more ammunition in 3 months than the full NATO in 1 year “He said. He noticed that The Russians are working with the North Koreans on this.Chinese and Iranians and Mullahs.
— In this way, Indo-Pacific and Atlantic become more and more interconnected. We know that China is watching Taiwan," he added.
Immediate Kremlin reaction
NATO Secretary-General's words echoed loudly in Moscow. Dmitri Medvedev, erstwhile Russian president and current vice-president of the safety Council, reacted ironically. In a post on X, he wrote that NATO's secretary-general "used besides many mushrooms liked by the Dutch." Moreover, he suggested that Rutte should learn Russian due to the fact that he might request it in Siberia.
Russia continues its offensive against Ukraine — 1 of the fresh attacks Saturday night on Sunday. late During a telephone conversation with Donald Trump Vladimir Putin stated explicitly that he did not intend to end the war, to which the president of the United States expressed "discontent". The day after talking to the Russian leader, Trump besides spoke to Volodymyr Zelenski.
As far as European countries are concerned, Poland, Germany, France and the United Kingdom, their production capacity is respective twelve tanks a year. The authors of the study prepared by experts from the Breugel Institute and the Kilonian Institute of planet Economy (IfW) point out that European countries have adequate backing for the modernisation of their armed forces, but they must yet act specifically in this area.
They besides stress that the average transportation time of arms is 3 to 4 years since the order was placed, so it is essential to take appropriate steps "here and now". In their opinion, the Russians have much greater possible than European countries in the production of tanks and armored vehicles.
