20 minutes agoChief NATO corrects Trump, says many European soldiers have died for America
Periskopi(6 months ago)
(6 months ago)Secretary - General NATO, Mark Rutte, has done a test of reality to Donald Trump, telling him that a soldier of NATO loved every two Americans in Afghanistan after the US president doubted the Western alliance. Speaking yesterday at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Trump said: “I am not [...]
Speaking yesterday at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Trump said: “I'm not sure if they would be there for us if we were to call for” while trying to collect momentum for his plan, now abandoned, to buy Greenland from Denmark.
I know everyone very well. I'm not sure they'd be there. I know we'd be there for them. I don't know if they'd be there for us”, said the American president, broadcast the Telegraph.
However, claims bypass the fact that NATO member states suffered hundreds of deaths during the war in Afghanistan, which was triggered after the September 11th attack at the World Trade Centre in New York.
Britain alone lost 457 troops, while France, Germany, Italy and Denmark also suffered many deaths.
Rutte said to Trump: “There's one thing I heard you say yesterday and today. You were not absolutely sure that Europeans would come to the aid of the United States if you were attacked. Let me tell you, they'll come and do it in Afghanistan.
