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Trump has for years expressed skepticism astir the Western confederation with NATO. (AP photo)
US President-elect Donald Trump and the caput of NATO person met for talks connected planetary security, the subject confederation said Saturday.
In a little statement, NATO said Trump and its caput general, Mark Rutte, met connected Friday successful Palm Beach, Florida. “They discussed the scope of planetary information issues facing the Alliance,” the connection said without giving details.
It appeared to beryllium Rutte’s archetypal gathering with Trump since his Nov. 5 election. Rutte had antecedently congratulated Trump and said “his enactment volition again beryllium cardinal to keeping our Alliance strong” and that helium looked guardant to moving with him.
Trump has for years expressed skepticism astir the Western confederation and complained astir the defence spending of galore of its subordinate nations, which helium regarded arsenic excessively low. He depicted NATO allies arsenic leeches connected the US subject and openly questioned the worth of the confederation that has defined American overseas argumentation for decades. He threatened not to support NATO members that neglect to conscionable defense-spending goals.
Rutte and his squad besides met Trump’s prime arsenic nationalist information adviser, US Rep. Michael Waltz, and different members of the president-elect’s nationalist information team, the NATO connection said.
Rutte took implicit astatine the helm of NATO successful October.
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