To Donald Trump’s question about whether he would go to Moscow for talks, Ukrainian president Volodomyr Zelensky answered that there were “too many Ukrainian drones” there, so it would be dangerous.
Nato secretary general Mark Rutte had hoped the US would appreciate the European allies for increasing defence investments by more than one trillion dollars.
Even before the alliance’s top-level meeting in Ankara and during it, he praised Trump for having pushed Europeans into record military spending, and he urged him to “take that victory”.
Ambassadors of the member states had beforehand approved a statement in which they confirmed their “unwavering commitment” to collective defence.
None of this, however, helped secure an attempt at a friendly mood between the allies and the US. The American president, who announced the end of the truce with Iran, insulted Spain and again threatened to seize Greenland.
