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NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte gave a keynote address at the IISS Prague Defence Summit 2025, emphasizing the serious and lasting threats posed by Russia and China. He highlighted that Russia allocates 40% of its budget to its war economy and is aggressively modernizing its military. Rutte stressed the urgent need for NATO allies to invest significantly more in defense and speed up defense production, with a commitment to invest 5% of GDP in defense by 2035 to enhance collective defense capabilities. He reaffirmed NATO's focus on credible deterrence, unity, and supporting Ukraine against Russian aggression, noting that these threats will persist for the foreseeable future and that NATO is already making progress on these priorities through coordinated European and North American efforts.[1][2][3][5][6][7]

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Here are 10 key aspects of the podcast episode "Rory and Alastair Explain Farage’s Mass Deportation 'Plan'" from The Rest Is Politics:

1. Nigel Farage pledges to deport 600,000 people from Britain within five years if his Reform UK party wins government.[1][4]

2. The plan includes detaining all illegal migrants immediately and building capacity for 24,000 detainees at a time to reach about 300 deportations daily.[3][1]

3. Reform UK proposes repealing the Human Rights Act 1998 and disapplying the 1951 Refugee Convention to remove legal barriers for deportations.[5][1][3]

4. The party intends to create a new Illegal Migration (Mass Deportation) Bill, but faces hurdles like the House of Lords, Supreme Court, and European Court of Human Rights.[1][5]

5. Deportations would be enforced relentlessly using government databases (DVLA, HMRC, banks) and charter flights backed by military aircraft on standby.[3][1]

6. Farage argues the plan is feasible politically and operationally, despite earlier saying mass deportations were impossible.[6][1]

7. Critics warn deportations would send people back to dangerous countries like Afghanistan and Iran, raising ethical and legal issues.[6][3]

8. The podcast discusses how media coverage fuels Farage's rhetoric and a toxic immigration debate.[4]

9. It analyzes how Labour is adopting similar immigration stances, blurring party lines on the issue.[4]

10. The plan, if enacted, would represent a radical reconstruction of the British state, amounting to a form of regime change.[1]