Donald Trump has again attacked Nato for not supporting the US in the Iran war, following a private meeting with its Secretary General Mark Rutte at the White House.
In a post shared to Truth Social after the meeting, the US President said: “NATO WASN’T THERE WHEN WE NEEDED THEM, AND THEY WON’T BE THERE IF WE NEED THEM AGAIN.”
Meanwhile, Rutte has described his meeting to CNN with Trump as “very frank” and “very open”, despite clear disagreements.
NATO needs to replace Rutte. He’s a worthless sack of shit.
His only job is to string Trump along until he is gone. Unfortunately, there is not much anyone else could do better at this time.
This exactly. Jens Stoltenberg stepped down simply because everybody knew that Rutte was good at deescalating with Trump by way of glazing. So Rutte is NATO’s silk glove.
As it stands, Europe has about - what - 2-3 years to become militarily independent? Let’s just hope the EU doesn’t screw up that process somehow.
But assuming everything goes well, Rutte will most likely be replaced with a ball buster and not a diplomat.
Probably Nato will continue to exist in one form or another and the job will need doing.
The" ballbuster " you mentioned, would be the position of EC defense minister or someone in similar position in (very) near future probably.
Maybe someone should string him up, would solve so many problems.
He is and he always was as prime minister too. We called him Teflon Mark because he kept coming back scandal after scandal. Shit just doesn’t cling to him. That’s really the main thing he’s good at, laughing problems away. And being a puppet for big corporations which is what his party was always about.
In that sense he fits in well with Trump. No substance.
The time he has to spend licking Trump’s boots is time he can’t use to do worse things.
There’s enough shit that would cling to him if only somebody would hold him accountable.
I think he is sacrificing himself so none of the state presidents has to. It is hard to watch but I really think this is a strategy.
I think Rutte thinks this. But appeasing an autocrat will only make things worse. Plus what he’s doing is pretty insulting to the NATO members that quite rightly have refused to join this war.