{"id":495121,"date":"2025-12-19T09:32:44","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T13:32:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/putin-criticizes-ruttes-nato-preparations-when-russia-is-no-longer-an-enemy-for-the-us\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T09:38:59","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T13:38:59","slug":"putin-criticizes-ruttes-nato-preparations-when-russia-is-no-longer-an-enemy-for-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/uncategorized\/putin-criticizes-ruttes-nato-preparations-when-russia-is-no-longer-an-enemy-for-the-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Putin criticizes Rutte&#8217;s NATO preparations when Russia is no longer an &#8220;enemy&#8221; for the US"},"content":{"rendered":"The President of Russia, <a href=\"https:\/\/es.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vlad%C3%ADmir_Putin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vlad\u00edmir Putin<\/a>, on Friday criticized NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte for his statements about the need to prepare for a war with Russia, because, as he recalled, Moscow is no longer considered an &#8220;enemy&#8221; by the United States.\n\n&#8220;How is NATO preparing for a war against Russia if the main country in the Alliance does not consider us an adversary or an enemy?&#8221; said the Kremlin chief during his big end-of-year press conference in which he also answers questions from the citizenry.\n\nPutin emphasized that in the new US National Security Strategy, Russia is not defined as an enemy.\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>You can also read: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ab.deultimominuto.net\/internacionales\/cuba-anuncia-una-guerra-sin-cuartel-contra-la-corrupcion-tras-sentencia-de-exministro\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cuba announces a &#8220;no-quarter war&#8221; against corruption, after sentence of ex-minister<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n&#8220;And the NATO Secretary General is preparing for a war with us (\u2026) Doesn&#8217;t he know how to read?&#8221;, said the Russian leader.\n\nHe insisted that Rutte&#8217;s words, whom he called an intelligent person, are surprising, since &#8220;the United States is the key player in NATO, its founder and main sponsor&#8221;.\n\nLast week, the Kremlin condemned the statements of the NATO Secretary General for calling on Europe to prepare for a war with Russia.\n\n&#8220;Unfortunately, Mr. Rutte, by making those irresponsible statements, simply doesn&#8217;t know what he&#8217;s saying,&#8221; said Dmitry Peskov, Kremlin spokesman.\n\nHe underlined that those statements can only be made by &#8220;the representative of a generation that has forgotten what the Second World War was&#8221;, in which the Soviet Union lost more than 26 million people.\n\nRutte urged member countries of the Alliance to rapidly increase defense spending and arms production to avoid a war with Russia and warned that the allies are the Kremlin&#8217;s next target.\n\n&#8220;The conflict is at our doorstep. Russia has brought war back to Europe and we must be prepared,&#8221; he added.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The President of Russia, Vlad\u00edmir Putin, on Friday criticized NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte for his statements about the need to prepare for a war with Russia, because, as he recalled, Moscow is no longer considered an &#8220;enemy&#8221; by the United States. &#8220;How is NATO preparing for a war against Russia if the main country [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":133537,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-495121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-24NP","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","dum_api":{"author_name":"Paola Castillo","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/cropped-paola-castillo-f-96x96.jpg","categories_name":["Uncategorized"],"featured_media_url":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/133537"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}