The NATO Secretary General is demanding an increase in defense spending to Cold War-era levels

The Alliance's current plans are for defense spending of no less than 2% of GDP, but eight NATO members have not reached even that figure.

NATO countries must return to Cold War-era defense budgets to be able to counter Russia.

This was stated on Thursday, December 12, during his first speech in Brussels by Mark Rutte, Secretary General of the defense alliance, Politico reports.

“It is time to move to a wartime mindset and increase our defense production and defense spending,” he stressed.

The increase in cash, Rutte said, is needed to revive the defense industry, which must ramp up production to counter the military threat from Russia.

“It is true that now we spend more on defense than ten years ago. But we still spend far less than…