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The United States Ambassador to Estonia, James Melville decides to advance his retirement disappointed by the Donald Trump attacks on European historical allies, Said Foreign Policy magazine, Saturday
His legation says that the diplomat will retire at the end of his mission at the end of July.
But in a private message shared on Facebook with friends, James Melville – with 33 years of experience in American diplomacy – expressed his frustration with the politics of Trump administration . To say that the EU was "created to take advantage of the US, to attack our piggy bank" or that "NATO is as bad as NAFTA" is not just a mistake in fact, but it shows that it's time to leave. The diplomat in this message, according to Foreign Policy
Since the tense summit of the G7 in early June in Canada, the American president has multiplied the attacks against his European allies with which he must meet the July 11 and 12 in Brussels for a NATO summit
The summit will take place a few days before a meeting in Helsinki on July 16 with the Russian president, Vladimir Putin .
Trump compares the Atlantic alliance with the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), which seeks to renegotiate with Canada and Mexico.
Having been under the command of six presidents and 11 state secretaries, I never thought He would reach this point, Melville added on Facebook.
According to CNN, Susan Thornton a senior official of the State Department in charge of Asia, also made the decision to withdraw.
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