NATO Chief Mark Rutte calls for 'shift to a wartime mindset'

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte emphasized that NATO currently isn't ready to meet security challenges and called for increased defence spending.

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00:00Defense ministers from over 20 NATO members are meeting in Brussels to discuss security

00:05and upcoming challenges to the alliance.

00:10NATO's chief Mark Root opened the two-day session with a clear goal, shifting to a wartime

00:15mindset.

00:18To prevent war, we need to prepare for it.

00:22It's time to shift to a wartime mindset.

00:26And this means we need to make our defenses even stronger by spending more on defense,

00:31producing more, and better defense capabilities.

00:35Russia is hard at work to try to weaken our democracies and chip away at our freedom.

00:40And it is not alone.

00:41It has China, North Korea, and Iran by its side.

00:45Root warned the alliance members that Europe's future is at stake, and NATO must do all it

00:50can to keep the people safe amidst growing security threats to the region.

00:54The next summit, in six months' time, will take place in The Hague.

03:04I think this is enough.