NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte has told Europe it should “keep on dreaming” if it thinks it can defend itself without the support of the United States.

“If anyone thinks here again that the European Union, or Europe as a whole, can defend itself without the US, keep on dreaming. You can’t. We can’t. We need each other,” Rutte said during an address to the European Parliament in Brussels on Monday.

The NATO chief warned European nations they would need to increase defense spending to 10% if they “really want to do it alone,” adding they would need to build up their own nuclear capability, costing billions of euros.

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    2 days ago

    They’re spending the money on American weapons, tech and intel. If you remove America what are you going to spend it on? You have to invest in yourself and that takes time.

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      1 day ago

      THAT is the elegance of Trump’s soon-to-begin war on Canada & the rest of the hated “woke”:

      He can simply brick all the Canadian-owned & EU-owned mil-tech from the US!

      Calculate how EU’s going to fare THEN, eh?

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