President Donald Trump’s efforts to have allies spend more money on defense to face various international threats combined with the use of the tariffs as a weapon to help fix a disadvantageous trade situation for the United States will culminate in a historic declaration at a summit in the Hague by American partners in two months, U.S. Ambassador to NATO Matthew Whitaker told Fox’s “Sunday Morning Futures.”
Whitaker emphasized that the underspending on defense by U.S. allies, coupled with the trade situation for the United States, “is unsustainable.”
He said that “our European allies have to understand the reality of the situation” and that “they completely understand what is at stake and what they need to do and we fully expect” that, at the end of June at a Hague summit, a historic declaration will be signed by American allies “with President Trump there leading the way.”
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