Nato Boss Mark Rutte Delivers Brutal Reality Check To Donald Trump At Davos

Nato secretary general Mark Rutte delivered a brutal reality check to Donald Trump over his repeated claims that the military alliance would never come to America’s aid if it was attacked.

The US president told the World Economic Forum in Davos “I’m not sure that they’d be there for us if we gave them the call” as he tried to rally support for his now-abandoned demand to take over Greenland from Denmark.

He said: “I know them all very well. I’m not sure that they’d be there. I know we’d be there for them. I don’t know that they would be there for us.”

His misinformed claims, which he has made on numerous occasions, overlook the fact that Nato member countries suffered hundreds of deaths in the Afghanistan war, which was triggered by the September 11 attack on the World Trade Centre in New York.

Britain alone lost 457 soldiers, with the likes of France, Germany, Italy and Denmark also suffering many deaths.

Rutte told Trump: ″There’s one thing I heard you say yesterday and today. You were not absolutely sure Europeans would come to the rescue of the US if you will be attacked. Let me tell you, they will and they did in Afghanistan.

“For every two Americans who paid the ultimate price, there was one soldier from another Nato country who did not come back to his family – from the Netherlands, from Denmark and particularly from other countries.

“So you can be assured, absolutely, if ever the United States was under attack, your allies will be with you. There is an absolute guarantee. I really want to tell you that because it pains me if you think it is not.”

In a remarkable climbdown in the wake of his meeting with Rutte, Trump announced that the pair had agreed “the framework of a future deal” on Greenland “and the entire Arctic Region”.

That means he has now dropped his threat take over the semi-autonomous territory, and ditched his threat to impose tariffs on the UK and seven other European nations for opposing him.