What the Hell Is Going On: WTH Is Going On With NATO? Secretary General Mark Rutte Explains.

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🗓️ 10 April 2026

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Against the backdrop of Operation Epic Fury and President Trump’s frustration with military support from NATO allies, Secretary General Mark Rutte visited Washington to discuss the alliance’s evolving burden sharing. Moving away from American codependence and increasing European defense investment took center stage at this year’s NATO Summit in The Hague, and we hope to […]

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0:00.0	This podcast is brought to you by the American Enterprise Institute.
0:03.1	If you like what you hear, please subscribe, rate, review, and share.
0:07.1	Thanks for listening. Here's our show.
0:08.7	What the hell is going on?
0:10.5	What's really going on?
0:12.0	We said, what the hell happened?
0:13.5	You don't have to know what the hell is on it.
0:15.6	They see what's going on.
0:16.7	I don't know what's going on.
0:18.0	What is going on?
0:20.0	We must find out what's going on. What is going on? We must find out what is going on.
0:30.2	Hi, I'm Danielle Pletka.
0:31.6	And I'm Mark Tiesin.
0:32.4	Welcome to our podcast.
0:33.9	What the hell is going on?
0:35.9	Mark, what the hell is going on is we are at the Ronald Reagan Institute in Washington.
0:40.5	We are recording this in their studios.
0:42.3	Thank you very much.
0:43.7	Dave Trilio and Roger Zachheim for allowing us to use your studio.
0:46.5	And the reason we are here is because NATO Secretary General Mark Ruda is here for an event and a lunch, which I got to attend, and he's joining us on the podcast today.
0:58.7	Outstanding. I know I really missed out on this. I was doing something, a conversation on Iran with PBS, which I enjoyed very much.
1:06.5	But I did enjoy it, but I was lucky enough that Kristen, our producer took notes on
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