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Mark Rutte: “Europeans are spending in the U.S. it was 10 billion in…”

Featuring: Mark Rutte, People's Party for Freedom and Democracy | Secretary General of NATO | International

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Live: As Trump considers NATO withdrawal, Mark Rutte delivers speech in Washington DC

Published | Video Starts at 25:48

In the European system you have an election cycle or three or four years, but the money is there. I mean, you just mentioned a 20% increase where, look what the, what, what Europeans are spending in the U.S. it was 10 billion in 2020. It was already 43 billion in 2024. buying from Europe into the U.S. industrial base. And that will massively increase, let alone what the US Will need for itself to buy, given the huge increase of the defense budget here in the United States under Trump's leadership. (25:48–25:55)

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