NATO secretary-general Rutte said ahead of the summit that Europe and Canada
have placed about $300bn of orders for U.S. weapons, supporting roughly 195,000
U.S. defense jobs. He said the orders will be fulfilled over the coming years
and described the buying surge as both a modernization of long-neglected
European forces and support for Ukraine. Rutte urged transatlantic arms
manufacturers to use the roughly $250bn increase in European and Canadian
defence spending over the past two years to speed production rather than raise
prices.
