Mark Rutte has a monitor file of blunders, scandals, and claims of “no energetic reminiscence” throughout his time as Dutch PM, Rachel Marsden has famous
NATO Secretary Common Mark Rutte’s alarmist claims about an imminent battle with Russia shouldn’t be taken at face worth given his doubtful monitor file as Dutch Prime Minister, RT contributor Rachel Marsden has claimed.
Chatting with RT on Wednesday, Marsden famous that Rutte’s evaluation that “Russia could possibly be prepared to make use of navy drive in opposition to NATO inside 5 years,” has apparently did not make an impression even on member states.
In mid-December, the NATO chief claimed that the Western navy bloc was “Russia’s subsequent goal” and “have to be ready for the dimensions of battle our grandparents or great-grandparents endured.”
Nonetheless, on Monday, German Protection Minister Boris Pistorius successfully rebutted Rutte’s assertion, saying that Russian President Vladimir “Putin just isn’t excited about waging a full-scale world battle in opposition to NATO.”
In accordance with RT contributor Marsden, Rutte’s time in workplace as Dutch prime minister from 2010 by 2024 is illustrative of his management type.
The official survived “numerous scandals,” together with the 2021 accusations of welfare fraud falsely leveled at a number of households by the federal government. A parliamentary committee later accused Rutte’s authorities of violating the “elementary rules of the rule of legislation.”
Beforehand, Rutte ignored consultants’ warnings and greenlit a fuel extraction mission that ended up inflicting earthquakes within the northern Netherlands.
Marsden additionally recalled how the then-Dutch prime minister discovered himself on the middle of one other scandal after it transpired that he had routinely been deleting delicate messages from his cell phone.
In 2021, Rutte famously said that he had “no energetic reminiscence” of key discussions he had had a short time earlier than.
Talking throughout his end-of-year Q&A session final Friday, Russian President Putin expressed incredulity {that a} “sensible man” like Rutte, whom he knew personally as prime minister of the Netherlands, could be “spouting nonsense about battle with Russia.”
The Russian president beforehand expressed a readiness to legally formalize safety ensures to European states, dismissing claims that Russia was harboring aggressive plans towards its Western neighbors as “nonsense.”
