Nato chief promises 'forceful response' to any attack, as Trump remarks dismissed

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

52% : Breton added that European leaders understood the EU needed to separately boost its own military spending and capacities and defence of sovereignty.
50% : Trump seems to think that Nato is like a country club: you pay 2% of your GDP to the US which then provides defence services.
44% : "There's maybe a little problem with his memory - it was actually a female president, not of a country, but of the European Union," Breton said, referring to the European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, and a conversation she had with Trump in 2020.
43% : At the political rally, Trump, who is in the lead to be the Republican nominee in this year's US presidential election, claimed the president of "a big country" had asked him: "Well, sir, if we don't pay, and we're attacked by Russia - will you protect us?" Trump said: "I said: 'You didn't pay?
37% : After Trump told a campaign rally in South Carolina that he would "encourage" Russia to attack any of the US's Nato allies he felt were not paying their fair share, the Polish defence minister, Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz, wrote on X: "Nato's motto 'one for all, all for one' is a concrete commitment.
25% : Jens Stoltenberg says Nato 'ready and able to defend all allies', after Trump invited Russia to attack member countries The Nato chief, Jens Stoltenberg, has said that any attack on the western military alliance would be met with a "united and forceful response", after the former US president Donald Trump invited Russia to attack member countries he perceived as not meeting their financial obligations.
20% : In campaign speeches, Trump, has remained sceptical of organisations such as Nato, often lamenting the billions the US spends on the military alliance whose support has been critical to Ukraine's fight against Russia's invasion.

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