US President Donald Trump has posted screenshots of a non-public textual content message from NATO Secretary Common Mark Rutte, wherein he showered the American chief with reward for “decisive motion in Iran.”
The message, which Trump shared on his Fact Social platform, seems to have been despatched forward of the two-day NATO summit in The Hague, which opened on Tuesday.
“Congratulations and thanks to your decisive motion in Iran, that was actually extraordinary, and one thing nobody else dared to do. It makes us all safer,” Rutte wrote, seemingly referring to US strikes on Iranian nuclear websites on June 22.
In his message, Rutte additionally promised “one other large success” for Trump in The Hague, saying that each one NATO members had agreed to spend 5% of their GDP on protection. “You’ll obtain one thing NO American president in many years might get achieved,” he wrote.
A NATO spokesperson has confirmed to the BBC that the textual content is genuine.
Trump has lengthy insisted that NATO members in Europe ought to considerably enhance their navy budgets, which many pledged to do lately, citing the Russian-Ukraine battle.
Spain has reportedly determined to decide out of the 5% spending goal, after Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez rejected the concept as “not solely unreasonable but in addition counterproductive.” Madrid is at the moment beneath the present 2% spending threshold, with solely about 1.3% of its GDP allotted for the navy.
Rutte, nonetheless, instructed journalists on Monday that NATO guidelines don’t permit such exemptions.
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