NATO Secretary-General Calls on Europe to Shift to ‘Wartime Mindset’ | 12 Dec 2024 | On Thursday, NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte said that Europe must enter a “wartime mindset” while speaking to security experts and analysts at the Carnegie Europe think-tank in Brussels. “It is time to shift to a wartime mindset,” Rutte said at the meeting Thursday, according to the AP. “It’s time to shift to a wartime mindset and turbocharge our defense production and defense spending,” Rutte said. He stated that a “wartime mindset” is needed to “prevent war.” Taking a page out of George Orwell’s 1984, Rutte essentially insinuates that “war is peace.” Rutte failed to mention how the West provoked the war in Ukraine via the 2014 coup.