Wednesday, April 24, 2013

NATO Collapse Looms? Cuts & 'military irrelevance' hang over Alliance

NATO's top military officer says European countries need to spend more on defense, because they're free-riding on American funding. Officials warn the US-led bloc is rapidly losing effectiveness and unity. Crisis-hit NATO states forced to slash their spending, have already chopped 45 Billion dollars off the Alliance treasury - the equivalent of Germany's entire military budget. And as RT's Tesa Arcilla reports from Brussels, the rift between Alliance members is growing. RT LIVE http://rt.com/on-air Subscribe to RT! http://www.youtube.com/subscription_c... Like us on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/RTnews Follow us on Twitter http://twitter.com/RT_com Follow us on Google+ http://plus.google.com/+RT

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