NATO’s outgoing secretary-general, Jens Stoltenberg, has highlighted how 23 of the 32 alliance members now meet a goal of spending two p.c of GDP on protection, up from simply three a decade in the past.
“The USA has in NATO one thing that no different main energy has and that’s greater than 30 buddies and allies. Russia would not have that, China would not have that,” Stoltenberg stated.
Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, whereas saying she wouldn’t touch upon the US election, stated that “not a single paper” ought to come between the USA and Europe regardless of who wins the election.
“You saved us as soon as,” she stated of the USA. “Please persist with that method of working.”
One discordant voice in NATO has been Hungary’s prime minister Viktor Orban.
He traveled to Russia and China, in addition to Ukraine, earlier than the NATO summit and, after it’s over, will head to Florida to see Trump.