Moscow welcomes Trump’s description of NATO as ‘obsolete’, with the Kremlin calling the military body ‘a vestige of the past’
At the weekend Donald Trump said NATO was ‘designed many, many years ago’
He said it was ‘obsolete’, many members didn’t pay ‘what they’re supposed to’
Today Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said ‘NATO was a vestige of the past’
Germany’s Angela Merkel said: ‘We Europeans have our fate in our own hands’
CHRIS SUMMERS
DailyMail.com
16 January 2017
Russia has welcomed Donald Trump’s comments that NATO was ‘obsolete’ and Vladimir Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov said today: ‘NATO is indeed a vestige of the past and we agree with that.’
In a hard-hitting interview at the weekend the US President-elect said: ‘I said a long time ago that NATO had problems.
‘Number one, it was obsolete, because it was designed many, many years ago. Number two, the countries aren’t paying what they’re supposed to pay.’
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