Donald Trump is frequent in the NATO defense agreement on the summit

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NATO leaders to Donald Trump are preparing to redefine the mutual defense agreement of the coalition, amid concern that it will reduce the US security obligations that protect Europe for eight decades.

The US President will meet 31 NATO The Allies in The Hague on Wednesday, when European leaders hope that the national defense spending will increase the protection of America if their countries are attacked.

But Trump raised the warning by informing journalists on the first air force on Tuesday that Washington’s commitment to Article 5 of NATO, which indicates the mutual defense agreement, “depends on your definition.”

Trump He said that there are “many definitions” of Article 5. “I am committed to being their friends. I will give you an accurate definition when I get there.

These comments made a look at the assembly, three European officials said at the summit the Financial Times, and threatened to watch an event designed to keep the United States participating in the Atlantic relationship.

One of the officials said: “The summit depends on what Trump decides.” “We all sat here waiting for him to tell us if he would defend Europe.”

Trump’s comments on Article 5 follow the threats preceding the defense of allies who spend more on the defense, as the amazing European leaders who fear that Russia will be able to attack the NATO member during the contract.

“The last thing that NATO Secretary -General Roti or NATO allies wanted to hear, as the entire summit was carefully designed to secure the commitment of the United States to NATO and avoid any dust with President Trump,” said Tori Tawusj, the former director of the European Security Council at the White House.

Marc Roty tension to make the Trump friendly summit, which reduced the discussion for two and a half hours Praise In a special message to force Europeans to increase their military spending.

“You will pay Europe significantly, as it should, and your victory will be,” Root wrote in Trump’s message on social media.

This unit has been challenged on more spending by Spain, which has Rejected To spend 5 percent of GDP on the defense by 2035, which raised demands from other governments to flexibility on the target.

“Spain does not agree, which is very unfair for their rest,” Trump said in the first air force on Tuesday.

He added that the United States should not pay the same “anyone else”, on the pretext that spending on European defense helped to enhance infrastructure and “we have no ways in Europe, and we have no bridges in Europe.”

Root, who arrived at this event on Wednesday, rejected fears that the Spanish position will come out and redefine his belief that Trump is committed to NATO. “There is absolute clarity that the United States is committed to NATO, committed to Article 5,” he said.

Dick Shouf, the Dutch Prime Minister, agreed. “Article 5 is very clear,” he told reporters on Wednesday when asked about Trump’s statements.

But Rachel Rayso, an old aged colleague in the European Council of the Atlantic Council, said that she does not know that Trump is “never” a clear statement that he will stand beside the mutual defense agreement in NATO.

She said that the rest of the coalition was “might search for something they would never get.”

The United States, to a large extent the largest defensive stampede in NATO, is the member state that cannot be compensated in the coalition, as many European countries depend on their long -range missiles, intelligence and monitoring.

While former presidents in the United States demanded more European allies to spend on defense, Trump has gone beyond its predecessors by linking Washington’s security support to their obligations.

Defense spending was also called “equivalent” between the United States and the rest of the alliance so that US military assets could focus more on Asia and the Middle East.

“With the Trump administration, everything is negotiations and everything on the table,” said Sofia Gaston, a research colleague at Kings College in London. “Anyone thinks that anything different is naive frankly.”