Dutch Minister Calls Iran Crisis a Wake-Up Call on NATO Spending
Ruben Brekelmans during a Bloomberg Television interview ahead of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization summit in The Hague.
Photographer: Simon Wohlfahrt/BloombergUS strikes on Iranian nuclear sites and Russia’s continued war in Ukraine should act as a wake-up call for NATO to boost defense spending, the Dutch defense minister said.
They show “how our security is at stake and in what an unstable environment and the unstable world we live in,” Ruben Brekelmans, 38, said in an interview in The Hague on Monday. “What we are working on is strengthening our collective defense and deterrence.”