Nato chief says stopping Putin will cost trillions if they don’t support Ukraine now
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The military alliance has been increasing its forces along its eastern flank with Russia, Belarus and Ukraine, deploying thousands of troops and equipment. A Russian victory over Ukraine would greatly undermine the power of Nato and its credibility would cost trillions to restore, the alliance’s secretary general has warned.
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Mark Rutte insisted that Ukraine‘s Western backers must not scale back the support they are providing to the country, almost three years after Vladimir Putin’s invasion began. Nato has been increasing its forces along its eastern flank with Russia, Belarus and Ukraine, deploying thousands of troops and equipment. This is to deter Moscow from expanding its war into the territory of any of the organization’s 32 member countries.
Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Mr Rutte said: “If Ukraine loses then to restore the deterrence of the rest of Nato again, it will be a much, much higher price than what we are contemplating at this moment in terms of ramping up our spending and ramping up our industrial production.”.
“It will not be billions extra; it will be trillions extra,” he added. The military alliance’s leader insisted Nato must “change the trajectory of the war”, adding the West “cannot allow in the 21st century that one country invades another country and tries to colonise it.”.
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