President Frank-Walter Steinmeier said that Germany will satisfy new security requirements in Europe in an environment where his country celebrated the 70th anniversary of NATO, and the Trump administration gives an idea that US defense priorities are in other places.
“I think that Germany is in a very important position today,” Putin’s war against Ukraine continues all violence against Ukraine, and the United States has violence in its European allies, ”Staynmeier said.
“The call to Germany, and we heard this call. We received a message and really Mark, you can trust us, ”he said, standing next to NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte at the headquarters of the military alliance of 32 countries.
In February, US Minister of Defense Pit Hegset said: “Strict strategic facts did not allow the United States of the United States to focus on Europe’s security in the first place.”
Hegset said that the United States will “focus on the security of its own borders, as well as the problems of security that the United States believes in China.
These words, the first statement of the member of the new administration of Trump in NATO, forced Germany and other allies, and many people want to know how many American troops from Europe will leave.
On the other hand, military plans for the conclusion in the United States were not officially announced.
Hegset also warned that Ukraine could not take its entire territory from Russia and would not be allowed to join NATO, which means security guarantee. This guarantee will not allow Putin to attack again.
NATO leaders have always emphasized that the problem of membership should be discussed only between allies and the Candidate countries, and that Moscow cannot have the right to vote in this regard. Recently, however, this issue has become a matter of negotiations in negotiations between the United States, Russia and Ukraine.
In 1949, NATO was founded to create a set of threats in Europe, which is taking place from the Soviet Union.
On May 6, 1955, the former West Germany was looking for protection as the 15th member of the Alliance between the growing concern that the Soviet Army gathered in the east of the Iron Curtain.
Seventy years later, the threat caused by Moscow is still ongoing. The new German coalition government plans to increase defense expenses, weakening strict debt rules to strengthen the neglected army of the country for many years.
The government that left this post has formed a special fund of 100 billion euros to modernize the army. Thanks to this fund, Berlin was able to achieve the target of NATO for defense costs at a speed of 2 percent of GDP. Nevertheless, this indicator can be increased to 3 percent or more at a meeting of NATO leaders in the Netherlands in June.
“We will strive to turn the army of Germany and infrastructure in the basis of ordinary defense in Europe, said Stein Steinmeier.
He praised the adoption of membership in West Germany as an example of the “strategic intelligence” of the allies, and said that NATO leaders will still show such a forward today.
Steinmeier emphasized that the near future seems much more uncertain than the past.
The president also stated that not only lands, but also values such as democracy and the rule of law, must be preserved.
“We all know that these values are not only under the external, but also under the attack,” he said.