NATO Head Says “Wartime Mindset” Needed; Redirect “Pensions, Health, Social Security” To Military Spending

Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news,

Former Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, who was this year selected as the Secretary General of NATO, has stated that Europeans need to “shift to a wartime mindset” and that military spending must be increased, likely at the expense of things like health care.

Rutte made the remarks at, ironically, a meeting of The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Brussels, declaring that Russia is trying to “crush our freedom and way of life.”

“Hostile actions against Allied countries are real and accelerating… These attacks are not just isolated incidents. They are the result of a coordinated campaign to destabilise our societies and discourage us from supporting Ukraine,” he added.

We can prevent the next big war on #NATO territory and preserve our way of life.

This requires us all to be faster and fiercer.

It is time to shift to a wartime mindset.

And turbo-charge our defence production and defence spending. pic.twitter.com/J0ZF0LrbVs

— Mark Rutte (@SecGenNATO) December 12, 2024

Rutte further asserted that Russia is using unconventional “hybrid warfare” attacks against Europe, circumventing NATO’s traditional defence and bringing “the front line to our front doors. Even into our homes”.

“Ukrainians are fighting against Russian swarms of drones. That’s what we need to be prepared for”, Rutte told the conference.

“I know spending more on defence means spending less on other priorities. But it is only a little less,” he continued, adding that “On average, European countries easily spend up to a quarter of their national income on pensions, health and social security systems.”

“We need a small fraction of that money to make our defences much stronger, and to preserve our way of life,” he proclaimed, reasoning that “freedom does not come for free.”

Nato boss Mark Rutte calls on European members of Nato to spend less on pensions, health and social security and more on defence “to preserve our way of life”. So the poor must pay for endless Nato wars? pic.twitter.com/gWi6ABthez

— John Moran (@RueDaungier) December 12, 2024

Hundreds of billions have been sent to Ukraine, and for what? How much more do they want?

I don’t think many people will be fighting to defend the Globalist war machine run by utter lunatics intent on the destruction of the World.

Looks like you will be fighting this on your own 😂

— Lionbush (@Lionbush) December 13, 2024

Take a weapon and take all you NATO warmongering politicians with you and go on the front to stand behind your words. No one needs you! The people didn‘t chose you.

— Danijel ₿arukcic (@BarukcicDanijel) December 14, 2024

You’re never out of a wartime mindset
Our economy is a wartime economy
20 years in Afghanistan the war never meant to won.
Immediately back into the swing of it with Ukraine, Israel, Syria and who knows what else.
You need war and it’s death, destruction, suffering because it’s…

— John Slawinski (@SlawinskiJohn) December 12, 2024

Rutte’s call to institute a wartime mindset among Europeans was also recently echoed by Admiral Rob Bauer, the most senior military officer at NATO who said that “luxuries” will have to be sacrificed for freedom.

“If you ramp up your deterrence and if you ramp up support to Ukraine, there will be less money to spend on other things. It will take away some of our luxuries, it will require sacrifice,” Bauer stated.

Chairman of NATO’s Military Committee Admiral Rob Bauer:

‘Europeans must sacrifice our ‘luxuries’ to continue supporting Ukraine’

The working classes of Europe, living in constant economic struggle as European economies become more mediocre by the day under the weight of… pic.twitter.com/uxfJmEXxoA

— Afshin Rattansi (@afshinrattansi) November 27, 2024

The free world desperately needs leader who is committed to peace and not endless warmongering.

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