{"id":15568,"date":"2024-02-15T00:47:18","date_gmt":"2024-02-15T00:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/15\/nato-chief-says-trump-criticism-does-undermine-the-security-of-all-of-us\/"},"modified":"2024-02-15T00:47:18","modified_gmt":"2024-02-15T00:47:18","slug":"nato-chief-says-trump-criticism-does-undermine-the-security-of-all-of-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/15\/nato-chief-says-trump-criticism-does-undermine-the-security-of-all-of-us\/","title":{"rendered":"NATO chief says Trump criticism \u2018does undermine the security of all of us\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"speakable\">The chief civil servant of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization said former President Donald Trump\u2019s rhetoric about the organization does \u2018undermine\u2019 the security of its members.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg made the comments during a press conference at the organization\u2019s headquarters in Brussels on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018The whole idea of NATO is that an attack on one ally will trigger a response from the whole alliance and as long as we stand behind that message together, we prevent any military attack on any ally,\u2019 Stoltenberg said.<\/p>\n<p>He continued, \u2018Any suggestion that we are not standing up for each other, that we are not going to protect each other, that does undermine the security of all of us.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The warning comes after Trump offered harsh words for NATO allies at a campaign rally last week, going so far as to suggest the U.S. would not defend NATO allies that do not contribute their full share.<\/p>\n<p>Trump recalled a conversation he had with the president \u2018of a big country,\u2019 who he says asked him if they did not increase their defense contribution to the North Atlantic alliance \u2018and we\u2019re attacked by Russia, will you protect us?\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u2018NATO was busted until I came along,\u2019 Trump said. \u2018I said, \u2018Everybody\u2019s gonna pay.\u2019 They said, \u2018Well, if we don\u2019t pay, are you still going to protect us?\u2019 I said, \u2018Absolutely not.\u2019 They couldn\u2019t believe the answer.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>While Stoltenberg expressed concern at Trump\u2019s remarks, the former president\u2019s comment did spark a rush to confirm member countries\u2019 contributions in the coming year.<\/p>\n<p>The NATO chief announced that 18 of the alliance\u2019s 31 members are on track to meet their pledges of contributing 2% of GDP to the group. European states are on track to contribute $380 billion this year, and Germany will meet its 2% pledge for the first time since the Cold War.<\/p>\n<p>The figures show a dramatic uptick compared to 2023, which saw just 11 NATO allies meet their 2% spending pledge.<\/p>\n<p>Fox News Digital\u2019s Anders Hagstrom contributed to this report.<\/p>\n\n<div>This post appeared first on FOX NEWS<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The chief civil servant of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization said former President Donald Trump\u2019s rhetoric about the organization does \u2018undermine\u2019 the security of its members. NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg made the comments during a press conference at the organization\u2019s headquarters in Brussels on Wednesday. \u2018The whole idea of NATO is that an attack on <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":15569,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15568","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}