Truth.
‘If anyone thinks here again, that the European Union, or Europe as a whole, can defend itself without the US – keep on dreaming. You can’t,’ Rutte told lawmakers at the European Parliament.
Rutte’s comments came amid calls for the continent to stand on its own feet after tensions over Greenland.
The self-ruling territory is part of EU-member Denmark, which is also a part of the NATO alliance.
But US president Donald Trump has made aggressive moves to put Greenland into America’s hands, threatening to upend global order if he didn’t get his way.
He threatened to place a massive 25% tariff on EU goods unless Denmark agreed to hand Greenland over to the US.
And earlier this month, he told the New York Times that ‘it may be a choice’ for the US between annexing Greenland and keeping NATO intact.
Asked why he actually wanted the territory, he said: ‘Because that’s what I feel is psychologically needed for success.
‘I think that ownership gives you a thing that you can’t do with, you’re talking about a lease or a treaty. Ownership gives you things and elements that you can’t get from just signing a document.’
……Trump later backed down from his tariff threat, claiming last week that the United States can do ‘exactly what we want to do’ in Greenland as part of a new deal with NATO that grants America total and permanent access to the semi-autonomous territory.
President Trump got exactly what he wanted.