NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte promised to show US President Donald Trump at the alliance's summit in Ankara that the bloc is useful to him, citing the number of invited guests and attempting to flatter the American leader's vanity, who the day before expressed disappointment in NATO's effectiveness, APA reports.
"The summit in Ankara will be attended by 42 countries, including partners from the Middle East and the Asia-Pacific region. The combined economic size of these countries exceeds $70 trillion," Rutte said.
Trump is "the most powerful man in NATO" and "the leader of the world," Rutte declared, demonstrating the bloc's usefulness to him while speaking at the Atlantic Council (an organization deemed undesirable by Russia) during his visit to the United States. He emphasized that the summit should demonstrate that Trump is "the most powerful man in this room," and therefore "the leader of the entire world."
In his introduction, Rutte repeatedly reiterated that European NATO countries and Canada are spending hundreds of billions of dollars more on defense than they did before Trump took office. He reiterated that the Ankara summit "will bring contracts worth tens of billions of dollars." In this way, Rutte attempted to smooth over differences within NATO and re-enlist the US president's support for ensuring Europe's military security.
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