{"id":43781,"date":"2024-12-13T03:20:33","date_gmt":"2024-12-13T03:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=43781"},"modified":"2024-12-13T03:20:39","modified_gmt":"2024-12-13T03:20:39","slug":"nato-must-switch-to-a-wartime-mindset-warns-secretary-general","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=43781","title":{"rendered":"Nato must switch to a wartime mindset, warns secretary general"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">BBC:   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The head of Nato has said it is time to &#8220;shift to a wartime mindset&#8221;, as he warned the military alliance&#8217;s members were not spending enough to prepare for the threat of a future conflict with Russia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Secretary general Mark Rutte said Moscow was &#8220;preparing for long-term confrontation with Ukraine and with us&#8221;, describing the current security situation as the worst in his lifetime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;We are not ready for what is coming our way in four to five years,&#8221; he said in his first major speech since becoming secretary general in October, urging members to &#8220;turbocharge&#8221; their defence spending.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His comments come weeks before president-elect Donald Trump takes office, having&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-us-canada-68269354\">previously suggested<\/a>&nbsp;the US would not protect Nato allies that were failing to spend enough on defence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC: The head of Nato has said it is time to &#8220;shift to a wartime mindset&#8221;, as he warned the military alliance&#8217;s members were not spending enough to prepare for the threat of a future conflict with Russia. Secretary general Mark Rutte said Moscow was &#8220;preparing for long-term confrontation with Ukraine and with us&#8221;, describing the current security situation as the worst in his lifetime. &#8220;We are not ready for what is coming our way in four to five years,&#8221; he said in his first major speech since becoming secretary general in October, urging members to &#8220;turbocharge&#8221; their defence spending&#8230;. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43782,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43781"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43783,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43781\/revisions\/43783"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/43782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}