US EditionStoltenberg Confirms that Rutte Turned Trump Whisperer Into a Suspense
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Mark Rutte, through flattery, helped salvage a 2018 NATO summit that was nearly derailed by Donald Trump, confirms the man who led NATO at the time. The American president threatened to resign and thus blow up the alliance, writes former NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg in his memoirs. However, after Rutte's intervention, he didn't.
"I'm ready to leave. There's no reason to be here anymore," Donald Trump reportedly said during one of the most heated NATO summits in history. Former Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, in his memoirs, described the behind-the-scenes of the meeting, which, by his own admission, could have led to the collapse of the alliance.
Mark Rutte helped salvage a nearly derailed NATO summit in 2018 by appeasing Donald Trump with flattery, then-NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg confirms in his memoirs. The American president threatened to resign and thus blow up the alliance. Trump demanded that European NATO countries spend more on defense and suddenly escalated this during the summit. After emergency meetings with Chancellor Angela Merkel, President Emmanuel Macron, and Stoltenberg…
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