Trump meets with NATO leader Rutte
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Transatlantic allies’ refusal to back the Iran war fuels latest Trump outburst after meeting with Nato chief Mark Rutte.
In our news wrap Wednesday, NATO chief Mark Rutte met with President Trump in a bid to ease rising tensions between the White House and the military alliance, Southwest is the latest airline to raise baggage fees amid higher fuel costs brought on by the Iran war,
President Trump lashed out after hosting Mark Rutte, NATO’s secretary general, at the White House on Wednesday.
Roughly 80,000 to 90,000 U.S. troops are stationed across Europe, with the largest number of personnel in Germany.
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Trump pressures NATO: EU insists no tolls in Hormuz, says freedom of navigation in strait must come with 'no payment or toll whatsoever'
India, April 10 -- The European Union declared Thursday that freedom of navigation through the Strait of Hormuz must be guaranteed without any tolls or payments, directly challenging Iran's emerging plans to monetize the strategic waterway.
President Trump is citing the unwillingness of European nations to back the United States in the conflict as another reason to scale back or abandon the alliance. And he still wants Greenland.
The chair of NATO’s military committee, Adm. Giuseppe Cavo Dragone, said the cease-fire between the U.S. and Iran is a positive development and brushed away suggestions that the alliance isn’t united.
NATO marks its seventy-seventh anniversary today under a cloud. President Donald Trump told reporters on Wednesday of his “disgust with NATO” over its failure to help the United States reopen the Strait of Hormuz.