For the first time in NATO’s Foreign Minister meeting on Thursday, US Foreign Minister Marco Rubio convinced US and President Donald Trump commitment to NATO.
According to Rubio, Trump is not against NATO, but against a union that is not capable of.
“We’re going to stay in NATO,” Rubio assured.
He said that the US strong commitment of NATO also says Fresh NATO ambassador designation.
Rubio criticized the media about creating a NATO hysteria in his speech at the union’s headquarters.
“Some of this hysteria and exaggeration I see in the global media and in some US media, about NATO, is unfounded,” Rubio said.
The Foreign Minister emphasized that the United States wants NATO to be stronger and demanded more partner countries to invest more.
“I assure you that we have domestic needs too, but we have prioritized defense because of the US global role, and we want our partners to do the same,” Rubio said.
According to him, “a full earth war in the heart of Europe” is reminiscent of the importance of hard power as a deterrent.
According to Rubio, the United States wants the NATO allies to leave the Foreign Ministry meeting in a consensus, where every NATO Member State commits to and fulfills the promise to reach up to 5 % defense in relation to GDP.
“This also applies to the United States, which will have to increase its percentage,” Rubio said.
Currently, US defense expenditure is about 3.4 percent of GDP.
According to Rubio, no one expects to reach five percent “in one or two years, but the path must be real”.
“This is a tough truth, but it has to be said now to build a NATO that has the ability to defend the areas of our member countries and to prevent any action that would be aggressive against anyone of us,” Rubio said.
He wished for a good discussion at the NATO Defense Ministers meeting on Thursday and Friday.
In his speech, the US Minister of Foreign Affairs did not mention the new trades set by the US NATO allies that have shocked Europe and the rest of the world.
Valtonen defends the market economy
Finland at the NATO meeting of Brussels is represented by the Foreign Minister Elina Valtonen (kok.).
He would not want to see barriers to trade, especially among NATO Member States, and hoped that US customs duties would open the roads for negotiations.
“The reason why the United States is the most prosperous and most influential country in the world is that it has led to its entire history on the market economy and I believe that this will continue to be done in the future,” Valtonen told the media in Brussels.
Valtonen said the NATO alliance relationships were strong.
“I am completely confident that the trade war will move forward and hopefully to a situation where we are even in a better place than before the customs increases,” Valtonen said.