Former NATO Secretary General Rasmussen's Defense Spending Plan
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"For too long, we have relied on a model that doesn't work any longer, a combination of cheap energy from Russia, cheap goods from China, and cheap security from the US." – Anders Fogh Rasmussen
Excerpt from The Rasmussen Plan - Pegasus Research, Thomas Leckwold
Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the former Prime Minister of Denmark from 2001 to 2009 and the former Secretary General of NATO from 2009 to 2014, is joining European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and current NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte in advocating for increased European defense spending, offering his own blueprint for achieving these goals.
Unlike Ms. von der Leyen or Mr. Rutte, whose calls for increased defense spending are limited to their respective organizations, Mr. Rasmussen is calling for European countries to join his goal, even if they are not in the European Union or NATO.
Mr. Rasmussen is making his proposal in a published policy document titled “Freedom Is Not Free: A five-point plan for European Defence” that was produced by his organization, called the “Alliance of Democracies”.
The policy document calls for Europe to double its average defense spending from around 2% to 4%, with a goal to achieve this goal by 2028.
The plan is not necessarily a rival to the NATO and EU's current calls for defense spending and is similar in its targets and approaches, but it stands apart from those two plans with a call for action with its aggressive spending timelines, which make it novel from that perspective, but this and other aspects are unhindered by the reality of European government bureaucracy.
Mr. Rasmussen shares a strong philosophical alignment with President von der Leyen regarding current defense and Russian relations policies.
However, it is likely that Mr. Rasmussen feels more at ease in the defense sector than in the EU.
He is pro-Europe and EU in his outlook, can be considered in the globalist camp, and generally has an antipathy toward the U.S. in general and a deep antipathy towards President Trump.
This feeling is only exacerbated by the public position of President Trump over Greenland, which is governed by Denmark, and Mr. Rasmussen was the one-time Prime Minister.
His antipathy toward the U.S. is apparent as he has publicly called for an economic “NATO” by accusing “the Trump administration of declaring a trade war against the entire world except for Russia and North Korea...” in what is hyperbolic language and ignores the current trade sanctions the U.S. maintains on both countries.
Mr. Rasmussen, in an interview with Radio Free Europe, further stated…
I would suggest creating what we call D7, seven democracies in the world: the European Union, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, South Korea, Japan, and New Zealand.
And I think the backbone of that should be what we would call an economic Article 5. We would consider an attack or coercion against one of those seven countries an attack on all, and we should respond collectively.
He stated to the publication that he does not view the U.S. as a leading democracy because, in his view, the U.S. has chosen isolation and does not want to show global leadership for the free world.
The suggestion indicates a willingness to replace the G7 with the D7.
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