NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte has called on members of the alliance and its four Indo-Pacific (IP4) partners to work more closely to outproduce Russia militarily and ¡°outpace¡± technological rivals such as China to counter what he views as ¡°existential¡± threats.
¡°At this moment, Russia is producing in three months (the amount of) ammunition that the whole of NATO, including the U.S., is producing in a year,¡± Rutte warned Wednesday during an event at Keio University in Tokyo, calling the massive capacity gap ¡°unacceptable¡± and ¡°unsustainable.¡±
¡°The deteriorating security situation calls for us to do more, to produce more and boost our resilience. That is exactly what NATO is doing and what Japan is doing. Let¡¯s do it together,¡± Rutte noted.
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