NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte used a Wednesday interview with German media to emphasize that Europe must dramatically strengthen its defenses amid persistent threats from Russia and increasing global instability.
“Russia has neither a vote nor a veto over who can be a member of NATO,” Rutte told the German outlet RND, noting that the alliance’s founding Washington Treaty “allows any country in the Euro-Atlantic area to join.”
Rutte warned that even if a peace agreement ends the war in Ukraine, Moscow will remain a long-term danger to European security.
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