NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte will visit Washington amid Donald Trump's statements about a possible US withdrawal from NATO.
A NATO spokesperson says the visit had been planned for a long time. But before that, the US president told The Telegraph that he was seriously considering withdrawing his country from NATO because the Alliance had refused to join the war against Iran.
Meanwhile, CNN sources say NATO members aren't particularly concerned about Trump's threats. One European official called the situation “Groundhog Day,” pointing out that Trump has made similar statements about the US withdrawing from NATO before.
However, diplomats cannot completely ignore such words, because the US President sometimes makes political decisions very quickly.
Meanwhile, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk called the collapse of NATO one of the points of “Putin's dream plan.”
“The threat of NATO's collapse, the easing of sanctions against Russia, a massive energy crisis in Europe, the cessation of aid to Ukraine and [Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor] Orban's blocking of a loan for Kyiv – all this looks like Putin's dream plan,” Tusk wrote in H.
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