00:00It is NATO's firm assessment that Russia is a threat and also a long-term threat to the whole NATO
00:08territory.
00:09So that includes, of course, every NATO nation.
00:12I'm always explaining to my colleagues in NATO, not on the eastern flank, that we are all on the eastern
00:17flank,
00:17because these latest Russian missiles will take five minutes longer to reach London or Dublin or Rotterdam,
00:26compared to Tallinn, Vilnius or Warsaw.
00:30So we are all on the eastern flank.
00:32Russia is a long-term threat.
00:35That's our assessment.
00:36And that's what we prepare for.
00:38And that's why we have to ramp up the defense spending, making sure not only to equalize our spending with
00:44the U.S.,
00:45but also to make sure that we can defend every inch of our territory, not only today,
00:49but also in three, five, seven years from now, that we ramp up the spending and the production
00:54and the support for Ukraine.
