{"id":125264,"date":"2024-02-12T09:20:02","date_gmt":"2024-02-12T07:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/trumps-nato-comments-draw-scorn-white-house-calls-them-unhinged\/"},"modified":"2024-02-12T09:20:02","modified_gmt":"2024-02-12T07:20:02","slug":"trumps-nato-comments-draw-scorn-white-house-calls-them-unhinged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/trumps-nato-comments-draw-scorn-white-house-calls-them-unhinged\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s NATO comments draw scorn, White House calls them \u2018unhinged\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button \" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125264\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\nU.S. President Joe Biden and top western officials criticized former president Donald Trump on Sunday after he suggested the United States might not protect NATO allies who aren&#8217;t spending enough on defence from a potential Russian invasion. &#8220;America\u2019s leadership on the world stage and support for our allies is critical to keeping the American people safe here at home,&#8221; said Biden in a statement. &#8220;If my opponent, Donald Trump, is able to regain power, he is making it clear as day that he will abandon our NATO allies if Russia attacks and allow Russia to &#8216;do whatever the hell they want&#8217; with them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Trump, speaking during a political rally in South Carolina and appearing to recount a meeting with NATO leaders, quoted the president of &#8220;a big country&#8221; that he did not name as asking, &#8220;Well sir, if we don&#8217;t pay, and we&#8217;re attacked by Russia &#8211; will you protect us?&#8221; &#8220;I said: &#8216;You didn&#8217;t pay? You&#8217;re delinquent?&#8217; He said: &#8216;Yes, let&#8217;s say that happened.&#8217; No I would not protect you. In fact I would encourage them to do whatever the hell they want. You gotta pay.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0NATO&#8217;s 31 members have agreed on a target of spending at least 2% of gross domestic product on defence, but NATO estimates have shown that only 11 are spending that much. His comments drew a swift rebuke from NATO and U.S. allies. &#8220;Any suggestion that allies will not defend each other undermines all of our security, including that of the US, and puts American and European soldiers at increased risk&#8221;, said NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg in a written statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Any attack on NATO will be met with a united and forceful response,&#8221; he added, reacting to remarks on Saturday by Trump, who is likely to be the Republican nominee in this year&#8217;s U.S. presidential election. Polish Defence Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz also weighed in. &#8220;NATO&#8217;s motto &#8216;one for all, all for one&#8217; is a concrete commitment. Undermining the credibility of allied countries means weakening the entire NATO,&#8221; he wrote on social media platform X.\u00a0 &#8220;No election campaign is an excuse for playing with the security of the Alliance.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Germany&#8217;s foreign ministry posted the message &#8216;One for all and all for one&#8217; with the hashtag #StrongerTogether on its English language X account following Trump&#8217;s comments. EU Council President Charles Michel said: &#8220;Reckless statements on #NATO\u2019s security and Art 5 solidarity serve only (Russian President Vladimir) Putin\u2019s interest.&#8221;\u00a0 Article 5 of the NATO treaty says that an armed attack against an alliance member will be considered an attack against them all, triggering collective self-defence. Referring to Trump&#8217;s comments, EU Internal Market Commissioner Thierry Breton in an interview with France&#8217;s LCI television said, &#8220;We have heard that before &#8230; Nothing new under the sun.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He maybe has issues with his memory, it was actually a female president, not of a country, but of the European Union,&#8221; Breton added, referring to European Commission President Ursula Von der Leyen and a conversation she had with Trump in 2020. &#8220;We cannot flip a coin about our security every four years depending on this or that election, namely the U.S. presidential election,&#8221; Breton said, adding European Union leaders understood the bloc needed to boost its own military spending and capacities. &#8220;President Trump got our allies to increase their NATO spending by demanding they pay up, but Joe Biden went back to letting them take advantage of the American taxpayer,&#8221; said Jason Miller, Trump&#8217;s senior campaign advisor. &#8220;When you don\u2019t pay your defense spending you can\u2019t be surprised that you get more war.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/european-officials-criticize-trumps-nato-comments-2024-02-11\/\">Reuters<\/a> <\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/vaufien\/trumps-nato-comments-draw-scorn-white-house-calls-them-unhinged\/\">Trump&#8217;s NATO comments draw scorn, White House calls them &#8216;unhinged&#8217;<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[13363,847,3873,606,607,608],"class_list":["post-125264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-comments","tag-nato","tag-trump","tag-vau_viikkokatsaus","tag-vauen","tag-vaufien"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}