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Stoltenberg. Photo – Omar Havana/Getty ImagesSource: “European Truth” with reference to RA.
Details: In his memoirs Stoltenberg paid special attention to the difficult relationship of the Alliance with Trump during his first term in the White House.
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According to the former NATO Secretary General, which is now the Minister of Finance of Norway, the US President has repeatedly threatened allies that his country would leave them. The most serious cause of Trump’s anger was, in his opinion, a low level of defense of NATO European countries.In 2018, the expenditures of Denmark, the Netherlands, Germany and Norway did not exceed even 1.5% of GDP, so the US President allegedly even considering excluding these countries from NATO structures, according to memoirs.
Instead of full membership, they allegedly had to receive only the guarantees that Sweden used at that time, which was not yet in NATO.
As you can read in Stoltenberg’s book, the then US Secretary of Defense James Mattis repeatedly apologized to him for the behavior and words of his boss. He even gave Norwegian tips on how not to annoy Trump.
“We are ashamed of him. We just have to try to reassure him. And don’t argue with the president, especially about the numbers he refers to.
In his memoirs, Stoltenberg also spoke about intense talks in 2022 about joining the Alliance of Finland and Sweden, in particular, as he broke into the then Turkish Foreign Minister Mevluta Chavushoglu.
It is known that Trump also demanded that NATO allies in NATO’s allies to raise. At the Hague summit, leaders agreed to gradually increase the defensive expenditures to 5% of GDP.
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Stoltenberg. Photo – Omar Havana/Getty ImagesSource: “European Truth” with reference to RA.
Details: In his memoirs Stoltenberg paid special attention to the difficult relationship of the Alliance with Trump during his first term in the White House.
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According to the former NATO Secretary General, which is now the Minister of Finance of Norway, the US President has repeatedly threatened allies that his country would leave them. The most serious cause of Trump’s anger was, in his opinion, a low level of defense of NATO European countries.In 2018, the expenditures of Denmark, the Netherlands, Germany and Norway did not exceed even 1.5% of GDP, so the US President allegedly even considering excluding these countries from NATO structures, according to memoirs.
Instead of full membership, they allegedly had to receive only the guarantees that Sweden used at that time, which was not yet in NATO.
As you can read in Stoltenberg’s book, the then US Secretary of Defense James Mattis repeatedly apologized to him for the behavior and words of his boss. He even gave Norwegian tips on how not to annoy Trump.
“We are ashamed of him. We just have to try to reassure him. And don’t argue with the president, especially about the numbers he refers to.
In his memoirs, Stoltenberg also spoke about intense talks in 2022 about joining the Alliance of Finland and Sweden, in particular, as he broke into the then Turkish Foreign Minister Mevluta Chavushoglu.
It is known that Trump also demanded that NATO allies in NATO’s allies to raise. At the Hague summit, leaders agreed to gradually increase the defensive expenditures to 5% of GDP.