Then president told European commissioners in 2020 that ‘Nato is dead’ and the US would never defend Europe if it were attacked

Donald Trump told the president of the European Commission in 2020 that the US would “never come help” if Europe was attacked and also said “Nato is dead”, a senior European commissioner said.

Multiple news outlets said the exchange between Trump and Ursula von der Leyen at the World Economic Forum in Davos in 2020 was described in Brussels on Tuesday by Thierry Breton, a French European commissioner responsible for the internal market, with responsibilities including defence.

“You need to understand that if Europe is under attack we will never come to help you and to support you,” Trump said, according to Breton, who was speaking at the European parliament.

According to Breton, Trump also said: “By the way, Nato is dead, and we will leave, we will quit Nato.”

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  • @[email protected]
    1•11 months ago

    Seems like you don’t understand the role of NATO.

    Once one nation is attacked, all band together to fight the invader. They aren’t going to just sit by and wait. It is explicitly stated that they won’t. Even if Europe feels divided.

    Because every single one of those nations knows that if NATO breaks, they will be the next target in Putins campaign of terror. And they will not be able to defend themselves alone. Even the right-wing politicians know this.

    So if you think France or the UK will just sit by when a sparsely populated NATO area is invaded, then think again. Because if they don’t then no country will help them when Putin arrives.

    NATO is a pact of egoistic altruism. Help others to help yourself. Right-wingers are all about helping themselves.

    • @someguy3
      2•11 months ago

      No kidding huh. He has no idea why NATO was formed and exists.

    • Hyperreality
      1•11 months ago

      Right-wingers are all about helping themselves.

      Populists are surging across Europe and the western world.

      We are commenting on an article about a right wing populist with ties to Russia called Trump. He likes to help himself. He’s on record as saying NATO is dead and that the US wouldn’t help NATO allies.

      You will find similar articles about Wilders(the Netherlands), Le Pen(France), Orban(Hungary), Fico(Slovakia), Kneissl(Austria), Schroeder(Germany), Wilders(Belgium), Farage(UK), Salvini(Italy), AFD(Germany) and many many others who have (suspected) ties to Russia and/or China.

      IRC Kneissl, the former Austrian foreign minister, now lives in St. Petersburg. Salvini’s embarassed himself. Other populists have replaced them. Former German chancellor and mainstream politician Schroeder receives a million a year from Russian energy companies and continues to criticise the West, not Russia. He is also quite good at helping himself.

      It’s very scary, but all it takes for a mistake to happen, is for Russia to think that Europe and NATO is less united than it is, especially after a Trump win, populist gains, and Ukraine losing the war due to Western support drying up.