"Russia is preparing for long-term confrontation, with Ukraine and with us," Mark Rutte said, adding: "We are not ready for ...

“During the Cold War, Europeans spent far more than 3 percent of their GDP on defense,” the former Dutch PM said. In the early 1980s, before the collapse of the Soviet Union, NATO's European members ...

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said on Thursday the alliance needs to shift to a "wartime mindset" in the face of ...

Mark Rutte, Nato’s secretary general, harked back to the Cold War days, when countries cranked up defence spending to over 3 per cent of GDP. "We are still spending far less than during the Cold ...

Britain and other members of Nato have been urged to shift to a ... Considering that during the Cold War, Europeans spent more than 3% of GDP on defence, Rutte said that much more would be ...

Russia now views arms control over the vast nuclear arsenals that were built up during the Cold War to be a thing of the past ...

Mark Rutte, the secretary general of the organisation, said NATO members had spent more than 3% of GDP on defence during the Cold War and argued future spending would have to be much higher than ...

Russia is keen to disrupt, weaken or even divide NATO and one way of encouraging that might be to convince the U.S. that war is coming with ... Leon Neal/Getty Images During a Russian Defense ...

“During the Cold War, Europeans spent far more than 3% of their GDP on defense,” Rutte said. “We are going to need a lot more than 2%,” he added. NATO members are grappling with renewed ...

Just as NATO facilitated the economic development of Western Europe during the Cold War, Ukraine’s membership in NATO would help the economies of all NATO allies benefit from trade with and investment ...