Trump’s position on NATO “is not new” – 2024-02-17 23:01:15

He Kremlin assured this Wednesday that the former US president and presidential candidate White House, Donald Trump“did not say anything new” in his controversial statements about the defense spending that NATO countries should allocate.

“We have seen (Trump’s statements), but to be fair let us remember that, when he was president of the United States, this was one of his main messages, which he used in his relations with members of the Alliance,” said the spokesman for the Alliance. Russian presidency, Dmitri Peskovin his daily press conference.

He added that the former US president has repeated the message about the need to allocate 2% to defense “on different occasions”, so he “did not say anything new” now.

The president of the USA, Joe Bidenyesterday described as stupid and shameful the words of Trump, the favorite to be the Republican candidate for the November elections.

«No other president in history has given in like this to a Russian dictator. Let me say this as clearly as possible: I will never do that. For God’s sake, he’s stupid, embarrassing, dangerous, and un-American.”Biden said in a speech at the White House.

Last Saturday, Trump attacked NATO and said he would allow Russia to do whatever it wanted, including attacking members of the Atlantic Alliance that do not spend 2% of their GDP on defense, the goal established by the transatlantic organization and that about twenty members do not comply.

«Donald Trump sees NATO as a burden. When he looks at NATO, he doesn’t see the alliance that protects America and the world. He sees some kind of scam. He does not understand that NATO is based on fundamental principles of freedom, security and national sovereignty »Biden criticized.

While he governed the United States from 2017 to 2021, Trump frequently criticized NATO and members like Germany, accusing them of not paying enough for their own defense and of depending on Washington to protect them.

Furthermore, he openly questioned the principle of collective defense, established in Article 5 of the founding treaty of NATO, which establishes that an attack on a member is an attack against the entire organization. EFE (I)