Donald Trump told the president of the European Commission in 2020 that the US would “never come help” if Europe was attacked and also said “Nato is dead”, a senior European commissioner said.

Multiple news outlets said the exchange between Trump and Ursula von der Leyen at the World Economic Forum in Davos in 2020 was described in Brussels on Tuesday by Thierry Breton, a French European commissioner responsible for the internal market, with responsibilities including defence.

“You need to understand that if Europe is under attack we will never come to help you and to support you,” Trump said, according to Breton, who was speaking at the European parliament.

According to Breton, Trump also said: “By the way, Nato is dead, and we will leave, we will quit Nato.”

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  • someguy3@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    what are they actually doing about it?

    Europe can’t do anything about it, that’s interfering with another country’s politics.

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      10 months ago

      Yea the US has never done that, especially not to its “allies” so of course none of those “allies” are allowed to do it to the US.

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        10 months ago

        I’m sure the country with probably the most coups of others wouldn’t do such a thing as pick marionettes for others… Right??