JAKARTA - NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte warned that state members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) did not increase the military budget by up to 5 percent of GDP, they should "learn to speak Russian."
"If you don't reach 5 percent, including 3.5 percent for the defense budget, you can still have an NHS... retirement system, but you should learn to speak Russian. That's the consequence," Rutte said at a conference in London, as quoted by the British newspaper The Telegraph reported by ANTARA from Sputnik-OANA, Tuesday, June 10.
In recent months, Rutte has been constantly putting forward on the so-called threat from Russia and China in his speech, as well as calling on alliance countries to increase the budget for militarization several times whose impact could cost the social budget.
Earlier in June, Rutte proposed an increase in the defense budget from 2 percent at this time to 3.5 percent of GDP, and spending 1.5 percent of other GDPs on infrastructure development, military industry, and other security-related investments.
In recent years, Russia has noticed unprecedented NATO activity near the country's western border. The alliance expanded its initiative and called it "the detention of Russian aggression."
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Moscow has repeatedly expressed concern about increasing the strength of the bloc in Europe. The Russian Foreign Ministry stated that authorities in Moscow remain open to dialogue with NATO, but on the same footing, while the West must leave its way for the continent's militarization.
Earlier, Russian President Vladimir Putin explained in detail in an interview with US journalist Tucker Carlson that Moscow would not attack NATO countries because there was no point in doing that.
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