The twenty-seven dinner is not yet completed in Brussels, where a meeting of European heads of state and government is held on Thursday, March 6, that Donald Trump remembers their good memories. In the evening, the American president calls into question Washington’s commitment to the Atlantic Alliance (NATO), believing that the United States should not come to the aid of countries which, in his eyes, do not spend enough for their own defense. “If they don’t pay, I’m not going to defend them”he says to journalists from the White House.
To drive the nail, the Republican then questions the mutual engagement of his European allies, even adding: “If the United States had a problem and we called France or other countries that I would not call by saying” we have a problem “, you think they would come to help us, as they are supposed to do? I’m not sure. »» And this, while the only time that article 5 of NATO mutual assistance was activated, in 2001, the European states had mobilized, in Afghanistan, to help the United States after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.
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