Mark Rutte
speaker
1,139 appearances
97 recordings
19 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 9 Jul
Mark Rutte’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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You called me on Thursday that you had taken a decision.
And the decision is that you want Ukraine, what it needs to have, to maintain, to be able to defend itself against Russia, but you don't want Europeans to pay for it, which is totally logical.
And this is building on the tremendous success of the NATO summit.
The Ben Shapiro Show · Ep. 2226 - It’s Bernie’s Party, You Can Cry If You Want To · 26 Jun 2025
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And that changes today.
President Trump, dear Donald, you made this change possible.
Your leadership on this has already produced one trillion dollars in extra spending from European allies since 2016.
And then daddy has to sometimes use strong language.
You have to use strong
The Ben Shapiro Show · Ep. 2211 - A Big Announcement! Plus Trump’s NEW Travel Ban! · 5 Jun 2025
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First of all, let's agree why it is necessary to spend so much more.
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That is because the Russian threat is there, is there for the long term and the Russians, as we speak, are reconstituting themselves at a rapid pace.
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I mentioned this this this this number before, the fact that with only uh a two having a only a two trillion economy compared to a fifty trillion economy for NATO, twenty-five times bigger, they producing
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Four times more in terms of ammunition than the whole of NATO is doing.
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They produce in three months what the whole of NATO is producing in a year, whilst they are only two trillion compared to our fifty trillion.
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So twenty five times smaller than NATO.
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But we will spend more because otherwise... Are you worried he might turn his back though? No, I'm not because it won't come to that. And I don't want to spend more because of Donald Trump. So he's right that we have to spend more. Absolutely. He was right. He is still right. But when you look at the facts, we should not need Donald Trump to decide to spend more on defense.
We have to do it because it is in our interest.
But both are true. He did roll his tanks into Ukraine. Why couldn't he roll his tanks into the United Kingdom? Yeah, not a NATO member state. But at the same time, if NATO is not in four or five years able to keep up the deterrence, which is necessary to make sure that Putin will not do that, why would he not roll his tanks into Poland or...
fly out his missiles to the United Kingdom or to The Hague. So there is a risk. And you are right also that already at this moment we are faced with, and I hate this word hybrid, but when you look at cyber attacks, look what happened in the UK with assassination attempts in Salisbury.
When you look at sabotage, what he is doing with jamming in the Baltics of commercial flights, it is presenting a big risk. So that's happening already.
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