NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said Thursday European nations “are doing everything” to meet President Donald Trump’s requests for assistance in the Middle East as transatlantic tensions mount over the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran.
“What I see when I look across Europe today is allies providing a massive amount of support…” Rutte said at an event hosted by the Reagan Institute. “They have heard and are responding to President Trump’s requests.”
The alliance has increasingly drawn the ire of Trump, who has repeatedly dismissed NATO as a “paper tiger” and trashed key American allies for their lack of support during the United States’ six-week-long military campaign against Iran.
