The US president said today that Russian President Vladimir Putin is likely to have territorial aspirations beyond Ukraine.
At a press conference after his participation, Trump stressed that he told Putin in a recent phone conversation: “I have helped me reach an agreement with you” that would end the war in Ukraine.
On the sidelines of the Summit, Trump met with the Ukrainian president and said that Volodimir Zelenski wants the war to end.
At the same time, the US president said he was planning to talk to the Russian president soon with the aim of finding a solution to the end of the war.
The warning in Spain
Donald Trump said today after a NATO summit in The Hague that she wants to make Spain to “pay” financially for her reluctance to increase military spending.
“It is the only country that refuses” to reach 5% of GDP for security costs by 2035. “I find this awful,” the US president stressed, warning that the Spanish economy “could be completely destroyed. You know, we will negotiate a trade agreement with Spain. We will make them pay for double, “he said, as the European Union is negotiating with the US for a duty avoidance agreement,
NATO Member States today pledged to invest 5% of their GDP in security in 2035.
The goal will be difficult to achieve, many European leaders, such as Spain, warned, which considers the increase in defense spending “irrational”.
“Sufficient” current defense spending, Sancheth answer
Spain will achieve the new targets agreed, but considers its current defense expenditure, 2% of the country’s GDP, “sufficient, realistic and compatible with the welfare state,” Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said at the end of the summit.
Sanchez demanded last week to exclude Spain from NATO’s demand for defenses at 5%, a request by NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte publicly rejected.
