Mark Rutte And Donald Trump Announce New Munitions To Be Shipped To NATO

During a meeting with President Donald Trump, NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte spoke about shipping new munitions to NATO.

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00:00Germany where they're going to send early on missiles and they'll be replaced and NATO's

00:06going to take care of it's going to be coordinated by NATO and they're going to work very much with

00:11Matt Whitaker who's right here is a great ambassador and Matt's going to be coordinator

00:15you better do a good job Matt I will but Matt's going to coordinate he's a very talented guy he's

00:21going to coordinate everything so in a nutshell we're going to make top of the line weapons and

00:27they'll be sent to NATO NATO may choose to have certain of them sent to other countries where

00:32we can get a little additional speed where the country will release something and be it'll be

00:37mostly in the form of a replacement and I'd like to have Mark and again just a highly respected

00:44pretty young guy pretty young guy for having had the career that he's had because he had it he had

00:50an amazing career before going to NATO so we spent a lot of time together over the last couple of

00:57months and if you could say a few words absolutely no no mr. president dear Donald this is really

01:03big this is really big you called me on Thursday that you have taken a decision and a decision is

01:10that you want Ukraine what it needs to have to maintain to be able to defend itself against Russia

01:18but you do want Europeans to pay for it which is totally logical and this is building on the

01:24tremendous success of the NATO summit the 5% but also the decision to keep Ukraine strong and the

01:31decision to increase our defense industrial production so based on that this is that was

01:37Europe stepping up this is again Europeans stepping up so I've been in contact with many countries I can

01:43tell you that this moment Germany massively but also Finland and Denmark and Sweden and Norway and the

01:49United Kingdom the Netherlands Canada they all want to be part of this and this is only the first wave

01:54there will be more so what we will do is work through the NATO systems to make sure that we know

02:00what the Ukrainians need so that we can make packages of course in a way we discussed it this morning with

02:05Pete Hexat at the Pentagon in a way that of course the US will own its stockpiles necessary to defend this country

02:13that's absolutely clear but it will mean that Ukraine can get its hands on really massive numbers of

02:21military equipment both for air defense but also missiles ammunition etc etc so if I was Vladimir Putin

02:29today and hear you speaking about what you were planning to do in 50 days and this announcement I would

02:35reconsider whether I should not take negotiations about Ukraine more seriously than I was doing at the moment

02:41if I was Vladimir Putin but when I'm Ukraine I think this is really great news for them

02:45so I really want to thank you for that and that means your peers paying for it and again

02:49I mentioned all these countries we will deal with that and exactly as you said that might also mean

02:54that countries will move equipment fast into Ukraine and then the US later backfilling it

03:01because speed is of the essence so really thank you this is important