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Last year's NATO summit was sometimes called a "disaster" after the hard drive of the US president. Will it be more reconciled this time, or will the NATO summits still meet the Donald Trump bulldozer?
Already Monday afternoon, Trump has published reports on Twitter criticized by other NATO countries for not contributing enough to the alliance. In a known style, the US President reiterated that the United States spent more money for NATO than any other member state. Trump also wrote that Europe needs much more defense alliance than the United States.
Disagreement within the NATO Alliance is not new. However, the President of the United States repeatedly expresses his reluctance towards the Alliance in general and makes it clear that he does not like certain key people, like German Chancellor Angela Merkel, the prime minister Theresa May and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. After a glimpse of a possible mutual sympathy between Trump and Frenchman Emanuel Macron, it is now clear that this friendship has also cooled considerably.
However, Trump does not hesitate for a moment to express his admiration for Russian President Vladimir Putin's life of Xi Jinping and Trump's last friend, "Supreme Leader" of North Korea since 2011, Kim Jong- a.
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Meeting Marathon
The order and meaning of Trump meetings expected This week, little random:
- NATO Summit in Brussels on July 10 and 11
- Official visit to the Kingdom July 12 and 13
- Summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki on July 16
Here he has set up a series of meetings where the "new sheriff of the city" can really say who are his friends and who is not. His "shared military policy" seemed alien in a major political context
Reason for the visit of US President Barack Obama in London in April 2016. Scanpix / AP.
Trump's high level of activity and his admiration for Putin must be viewed in conjunction with Russian involvement in the 2016 presidential elections, where Trump defeated Hillary Clinton. The involvement of a stranger in one of the holiest institutions of the United States, the choice of the country's president, is of course totally unsustainable. President Obama immediately elected 35 Russian diplomats from the United States and closed some of the biggest spies in the Washington area.
Up to now, there is no indication that Trump himself or his closest staff illegally contributed to the Russian election.
Researcher specialist Robert Mueller is still in full swing with his investigation into the possible interaction between Russia and the Trump election campaign. Archives 2017: Scanpix / Reuters.
But the investigation is still going on under the auspices of Attorney General Robert Mueller, to find out if Trump or his people did anything that violates US law.
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There are reasons to worry that Trump at the Summit of the NATO in Brussels on July 11 and 12 will find a new, useless performance as it did at the Quebec City meeting in Canada in the so-called "Group of 7" last month. The G7 countries are a group of rich, democratic, industrialized countries that cooperate. The group includes Canada, France, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, Germany and the United States. Until four years ago, when Russia annexed neighboring Ukraine, Russia also participated. The European Union The EU is also represented at G7 meetings, and at this year's meeting, Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg was invited to attend part of the meeting.
Shortly before the G7 meeting in Quebec the introduction of new tariffs and taxes on exports of steel and aluminum to the United States, which was very negative for US trading partners. In Quebec, Trump arrived late at the start of the meeting, insisting that Russia be reinstated to the G-7, threatening to sharpen the trade war against the US's traditional trading partners, and refused to sign a joint statement. After the meeting, he called the meeting's host, Prime Minister Trudeau, for "very dishonest and weak."
Reason frequently given at the G7 meeting in Canada, June 9. German Chancellor Angela Merkel looks at the table. US President Donald Trump seated right. US National Security Advisor John Bolton and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in the background. Scanpix / Reuters. Photo: Handout. Reuters
Attacking "free passengers"
Trump at the NATO summit is strained over the next few days to show the same negative attitude of the US military military partners that he made in Quebec at his traditional trading partners. Trump made it clear that he believes that NATO partners pay little for the military community, for which partner countries have long sought to devote at least two percent of their gross national product (GDP) to defense. He led criticism against Germany, accusing the country of acting as a free passenger to NATO.
Germany currently uses 1.2% of its GDP in defense and the Germans do not plan to reach the two percent first. This causes Trump. According to NTB, a snapshot of last winter shows that only 15 of the 29 Member States are achieving the 2% target by 2024.
Countries that pay too little will be " treaties, "warned Trump. There is also a warning to Norway, which currently uses 1.6% of GDP for defense purposes.
And Trump later said that he believes that neither two percent is not enough, but that it should be
Following the NATO meeting of 11 and June 12 in Brussels, Trump goes to Britain, where military cooperation between the Allied countries originated during the Second World War. NATO became the victorious part of the Cold War, which ended with the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.
Following the plan, President Trump will meet with Queen Elizabeth and Premier Theresa May. He will also visit the birthplace of Winston Churchill, Blenheim Palace, in the village of Woodstock, 13 km northwest of Oxford. On Fridays, he goes to Scotland. From there, he will travel to Helsinki on Monday, July 16th to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin
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With a full-fledged trade war, it's not unthinkable that Trump at the NATO meeting is fighting hard against the issue of NATO members who spend money for their military defense. Norway may be particularly vulnerable, as it is known all over the world that Norway has derived enormous oil revenue from the North Sea and that it is now considered to be the largest in the world. 39, one of the richest countries in the world.
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Putin has everything to gain in the crisis [19659043] Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Trump meet in Helsinki next Monday. Here are the two in conversation at the G20 meeting in Germany last summer. Scanpix / Reuters
Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Trump meet in Helsinki next Monday. Here are the two in conversation at the G20 meeting in Germany last summer. Scanpix / Reuters