NATO chief Mark Rutte insists that US President Donald Trump has not undermined the alliance's Article 5 collective defence pledge. "Article 5, he has not undercut. He has committed to NATO, he has committed to Article 5," Rutte tells AFP during an interview in Brussels.
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00:00Article 5, he has not undercut, he has committed to NATO, he has committed to Article 5.
00:05But he is very, very strong in his language on, I want the non-two percenters to get to
00:11two percent and I want the whole of the alliance in Europe and Canada to at least equalise
00:15with the US and I think that's only logical from his point of view and we have to spend
00:21more here, not because he wants us, but because of the Russia threat and because of the whole
00:26capability targeting process leading us to conclusions in the coming months that we with
00:31two percent cannot defend ourselves.