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Feb 12 2024
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Trump Says Russia Should Attack NATO Allies Who Pay Less Than Others
Former President Donald Trump is facing widespread criticism after saying he would encourage Russia to attack NATO allies who pay too little money into the military alliance. Trump made the comment during a campaign rally in South Carolina. Donald Trump: “One of the presidents of a big country stood up, said, 'Well, sir, if we don't pay and we’re attacked by Russia, will you protect us?’ I
Democracy Now!Feb 11 2024
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Trump said he might ignore NATO’s duty to defend. Here’s what the group does.
Former president Donald Trump said Saturday that he would encourage Russia to do “whatever the hell they want” to NATO member countries who, in his opinion, don’t spend enough to defend themselves. Trump, the front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination, has long criticized the alliance, including in 2018, when the then-president voiced concern that using NATO troops to defend tiny
Washington PostFeb 11 2024
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Marco Rubio defends Trump's remarks: As president, 'he didn’t pull us out of NATO'
Sen. Marco Rubio on Sunday defended former President Donald Trump over recent comments he made about not protecting NATO countries, saying that as president, Trump "didn't pull us out of NATO." Rubio, R-Fla., disputed the characterization by CNN's Jake Tapper that Trump "wouldn't defend NATO countries and actually he would invite [Russian President Vladimir] Putin and Russia to invade them." "
NBC News (Online)Feb 11 2024
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Nikki Haley denounces Trump’s NATO comments and defends her husband against his attacks.
Nikki Haley condemned former President Donald J. Trump on Sunday for suggesting that he might not defend NATO allies, and that he might even encourage Russia to attack them, if re-elected. “Don’t take the side of a thug who kills his opponents,” Ms. Haley said on CBS’s “Face the Nation.” “Don’t take the side of someone who has gone in and invaded a country, and half a million people have died
New York Times (News)Feb 10 2024
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Trump Says He’d ‘Encourage’ Russia to Attack NATO Allies Who Don’t Pay Up
Donald Trump has despised NATO since the 1980s, and when he was president, his aides believed he wanted to pull the United States out of the alliance completely. At a rally this weekend, Trump went even further, stating that he would encourage Russia to invade NATO allies who “didn’t pay.” Trump’s threat took the form of a story that is likely exaggerated or made up completely (one obvious
New York MagazineJan 25 2024
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Hungary parliament speaker sees 'no urgency' in voting on Sweden's NATO accession
Hungary's parliamentary speaker said on Thursday there was no urgency in approving Sweden's NATO membership bid after ratification by Turkey left only Budapest holding up the lengthy accession process.
Turkey's general assembly, where President Tayyip Erdogan's ruling alliance holds a majority, voted 287-55 to approve the application that Sweden first made in 2022 to bolster its
ReutersJan 24 2024
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Turkey approves Sweden's NATO membership bid after 20-month delay
Turkey's parliament ratified Sweden's NATO membership bid on Tuesday, clearing the biggest remaining hurdle to expanding the Western military alliance after 20 months of delay.
Turkey's general assembly, where President Tayyip Erdogan's ruling alliance holds a majority, voted 287-55 to approve the application that Sweden first made in 2022 to bolster its security in response to Russia's
ReutersJan 21 2024
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NATO to conduct biggest war games in decades as show of power against Russia
NATO is mobilizing 90,000 troops as part of its biggest military drill since the Cold War. The exercise, coined Steadfast Defender 2024, will include at least 1,100 combat vehicles, 80 aircraft, and 50 naval vessels from all 31 NATO member states, as well as from NATO candidate Sweden.
The drill will start next week and last until May, NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander said at a press
SemaforJul 10 2023
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Keeping it real at NATO
It is standard for think tankers, journalists and sometimes even U.S. officials to cast geopolitical meetings as being especially important for one reason or another. “The event comes amid unusually high tensions between X and Y.” “The gathering could prove a turning point in the blah blah of the so-and-so.” Your host is guilty of having written such sentences. They are, after all, a way to
PoliticoFeb 12 2024
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Finland has elected a new president to take over top job in NATO's newcomer and Russian neighbor
HELSINKI (AP) — Finland has a new president after former Prime Minister Alexander Stubb narrowly for the key post in this Nordic country. Stubb, who takes over in March, will steer Finland’s foreign and security policy, including integrating the NATO newcomer into the alliance’s core structures. The final tally shows Stubb, of the center-right National Coalition Party, had 51.6% of the votes,
Associated Press