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NATO Is Obsolete - Donald Trump Sets
Out Foreign Policy Goals
Video and Transcript
Brexit
is going to be a great thing”, Germany’s
Angela Merkel is Europe’s most important
leader and the lifting of sanctions against
Russia could happen.
These are the views of US President-elect
Donald Trump who has been giving details of
his foreign policy goals in an interview
with British and German newspapers, The
Times and Bild.
Posted January 16, 2017
On the Brexit
issue Trump said Britain was smart in getting out of the
EU and that he’d work hard to get trade deal with the
UK.
“I think Brexit’s going to end up being the great thing.
And I predicted it – but the heat I took was
unbelievable. And I said – it’s because people don’t
wanna have other people coming in and destroying their
country. I thought the UK was so smart in getting out.”
Trump’s own way to deal with immigration into the US is
well known. He intends to build a wall on the US-Mexican
border. In the interview he said uncontrolled
immigration had been Chancellor Angela Merkel’s achilles
heel.
“I have great respect for her (Merkel), I felt she was a
great great leader. I think she made one very
catastrophic mistake – and that was taking all of these
illegals, taking all of the people wherever they come
from – and nobody really knows where they come from.”
Trump says Merkel’s “catastrophic mistake” was “taking
all of these illegals.” (Refugees aren’t “illegals.”)
https://t.co/zoLNJr8JRA— Daniel Dale (@ddale8)
January 16, 2017
Trump’s negative attitude towards NATO has alarmed the
US’s traditional allies, so his claims that the
organisation is important to him will have been
welcomed, even though he remains critical.
“And I said long time ago that NATO had problems and the
one of them it was obsolete because it was designed many
many years ago. And, number two, the countries weren’t
paying what they were supposed to pay.”
Trump: NATO ‘obsolete’, Brexit a ‘great thing’:
President-elect Donald Trump, in remarks published on
Sunday,…
https://t.co/sUAerOMMNm— Paris Journal (@Paris_Journal)
January 16, 2017
Throughout the interview Trump distanced himself from
previous US foreign policy, in particular his future
dealings with Moscow. His aim there is to end sanctions
imposed on Russia over its annexation of Crimea, in
return for nuclear arms reductions.
Trump Open to Lifting Sanctions on Russia
https://t.co/ECjg0D03Tj via intelligencer— Bill
(gmmachado1) January 16, 2017
Putin says 'no' to Trump's nukes
for sanctions offer:
Moscow will not consider reducing nuclear weapons in
exchange for the US lifting sanctions. This has been
stated by the Russian president’s press secretary,
Dmitry Peskov. |
