From Fox News: Without the help of President Donald Trump, the deadlock with Russian President Vladimir Putin would have continued, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said Monday.
Rutte said Trump was instrumental in getting the Russian leader to come to the table for discussion to ending the ongoing war in Ukraine.
“Without President Trump… This deadlock with Putin would not have been broken,” Rutte said during a Monday appearance on “The Ingraham Angle.” “He was the only one who could do this, starting in February.”
Rutte also said Trump was right in his criticism of NATO over the lack of defense spending by its member states. Trump has long demanded that NATO’s 32-member countries spend more to ensure their security.
“What he was saying is that the U.S. is spending so much more on its defense and therefore spending on the collective defense of NATO territory than the Europeans,” Rutte said. “And I hope the Americans see this, probably one of his biggest foreign policy successes of his presidency, of Trump 47, is that during the NATO summit we committed collectively to this 5% spending, including 3.5% on the core defense spending.”
Rutte praised Trump’s handling of the entire situation and said it “was a very successful day.”
“@POTUS criticism of NATO was right. The U.S. was spending so much more on defense than the Europeans. At the NATO summit we committed collectively to 5% spending. Today the conversation was a conversation among friends.” — @SecGenNATO pic.twitter.com/Q7Ikjvv3qy
— Laura Ingraham (@IngrahamAngle) August 19, 2025
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