At NATO, Trump Speaks For Putin, Disparages Spain And Trashes NATO

After a quiet G7 visit to France last month, Trump returned to form by disrupting the NATO summit with his usual antics.

Senior White House Correspondent, HuffPost

President Donald Trump spoke on behalf of Russian dictator Vladimir Putin, vowed to end relations with NATO ally Spain, resurrected his wish to take territory from NATO ally Denmark, and announced he did not like NATO at all.

“I’m not happy with NATO because of what they did with Greenland, and I’m not happy with NATO because of the fact that they didn’t want to help us with the number one state sponsor of terror, that’s Iran. They were unwilling to help us,” Trump complained to reporters just ahead of a meeting with NATO secretary general Mark Rutte.

“But we didn’t need help, but I was really testing. I wanted to see whether or not they’d be there, and the answer is anyway. I spoke to Germany, I spoke to France, spoke to U.K., spoke to Italy.”

Yet, like a toddler who agrees to sit through a dinner party only if he can pout the whole time, Trump did manage to offer a rare bit of good news on Ukraine, which had become a main theme of this year’s NATO summit: an intent to let the nation build its own Patriot anti-ballistic missile interceptors.

“Not surprised, but frustrated and disappointed that we have a president who cannot help himself but to destroy relations with some of our closest allies and undermine an alliance we have spent generations building,” said Jim Townsend, a former US Defence Department official who also worked with NATO.

“He and his people are incapable of comprehending the destruction he is wreaking.”

Others, though,........

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