NATO Chief Thanks Trump for Record Defense Spending, Not Global Peace
Mark Rutte, soon-to-be NATO Secretary General, told the BBC that Donald Trump’s pressure on alliance members to increase military spending was his 'biggest foreign policy success.' Suddenly, the threat of defunding NATO isn't a vulnerability, but a shrewd negotiating tactic. Apparently, squeezing more cash for defense contractors from member states is more critical to 'strength' than actual
collective security or conflict resolution. (After all, if you don't have enough tanks now, you might actually achieve peace.) The BBC failed to mention that the push to 'modernize' armies typically means more procurement from US defense giants. It’s less about unified defense and more about enriching shareholders while ignoring the real human cost of a perpetually militarized world. How many
schools or hospitals could have been built with those billions, instead of being funneled into a 'success' measured purely by arms expenditure?