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The Secretary General of NATO Mark Rutte met the American president Donald Trump after weeks of rigidity between the US administration and the Atlantic alliance. Since the start of the battle with Iran, Trump has attacked the allies a number of instances Europeans, accusing them of not serving to the United States sufficient. A place additionally confirmed within the assembly with Rutte, which passed off on the White House.

Rutte: «Trump is disillusioned by many allies»

During the assembly, the American president as soon as once more expressed his disappointment with the United States’ Western companions. «It is clearly disillusioned by many allies of NATO”, Rutte told CNN at the end of the meeting, adding: “I identified how many European international locations helped». The quantity one of many Atlantic pact additionally declared: «It was a frank and open dialog. It was a assembly between buddies. I love his management.” Furthermore, according to the secretary, after the American and Israeli offensive against Iran the world is safer.

Trump: «Nato wasn’t there when we needed him, and he won’t be there if we need him»

After the meeting, Trump published a post on his social network Truth in which he once again harshly criticized the alliance. “There Nato wasn’t there once we wanted it, and it will not be there if we want it once more. Remember the Greenland: that enormous piece of ice, badly managed”, wrote the American president in a message in all capital letters”.