European leaders have called for greater unity and military cooperation across the continent in response to comments from Donald Trump that threatened to undermine the basis of Nato.
Donald Tusk, Poland’s prime minister, said on a visit to Paris on Monday that there was “no alternative” to the EU and the transatlantic alliance before a summit in which he discussed deepening defence relationships with the French president, Emmanuel Macron.
“It is probably here in Paris that the words from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas resonate most clearly: ‘All for one, and one for all,’” said Tusk, in a thinly veiled riposte to the former US president and frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination.
The main reason Trump is saying these things is that it’s already abundantly clear that every country in Europe will be hitting their NATO funding target in the next few years anyway. They’ve all made plans to that effect anyway. So Trump can make it look like he did it, when in reality it had already been decided.
Thanks for the clear explanation, I wasn’t aware.