NATO produces in full year in ammo what Russia makes in three months, says Secretary General Rutte

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte has said that the military alliance is not producing enough defense industrial products.

In an interview with CBS "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan" program, Rutte said NATO is producing in a full year in ammunition what Russia is producing in three months, describing it as “totally crazy.”

“We have a problem, the United States part of NATO, the Canadian part of NATO, European part of NATO, that we are not producing enough defense industrial products. We are producing in a full year in ammunition what Russia is producing in three months. Russia has only 5% of NATO economy, compared. So we are 20 times bigger, the overall NATO economy, than Russia, and Russia is producing four times more in ammunition than the whole of NATO is producing in a year. That's- that's totally crazy, and that's why the [US] President and I discussed, and the other senior leaders in the U.S. and I discussed, also with European allies, that we have not only to ramp up spending, but also the defense industrial production,” Rutte said, according to a transcript of the interview published by CBS News.