In his first time period, Trump aggressively pushed Europe to step up defence spending and questioned the equity of the NATO transatlantic alliance.
The previous Dutch prime minister had stated he wished to fulfill Trump two days after his election on November 5 to debate the specter of more and more warming ties between North Korea and Russia.
Trump’s thumping victory to return to the US presidency has set nerves jangling in Europe that he might pull the plug on important Washington navy help for Ukraine.
NATO allies say maintaining Kyiv within the combat towards Moscow is essential to European and American safety.
“What we see increasingly is that North Korea, Iran, China and naturally Russia are working collectively, working collectively towards Ukraine,” Rutte stated just lately at a European leaders’ assembly in Budapest.
“On the identical time, Russia has to pay for this, and one of many issues they’re doing is delivering expertise to North Korea”, which he warned was threatening to the “mainland of the US (and) continental Europe”.
“I stay up for sitting down with Donald Trump to debate how we will face these threats collectively,” Rutte stated.
AFP