The meeting on Thursday comes just a few weeks after Trump threatened to use armed force against NATO ally Denmark to take control of Greenland. To ease people’s worries, NATO has now started a higher level of vigilance action in the Arctic. These talks between Denmark, Greenland, and the US will continue.
On Thursday, the defence chiefs of both the US and Europe seemed to agree that NATO needs to become more European in order to stay alive. They probably don’t fully agree on why they are making this change, though.
This was one of the most important meetings I’ve ever been to,” Mark Rutte, Secretary General of NATO, told press after the meeting. “We also saw proof of something else today: a real change in attitude.” A shared goal. A much better defence for Europe within NATO.
The head of NATO praised a “major shift and uplift” in defence spending in 2025. He praised Denmark, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland for going above and beyond the new goal of spending 3.5% of GDP on defence every year, doing so ten years early. The goal was set last summer after US President Donald Trump said things for weeks that made people doubt his country’s commitment to NATO’s collective defence clause.
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