US President Donald Trump has released a pointy public attack on Germany over its Baltic Sea gasoline pipeline address Russia.
Speakme to NATO Secretary-general Jens Stoltenberg earlier than a summit in Brussels, Trump said Berlin had grow to be "a captive to Russia" and he criticised it for failing to further raise defence spending.
Trump stated it become "very beside the point" that the united states became procuring european defence towards Russia whilst Germany, the biggest european financial system, turned into helping gasoline offers with Moscow.
Trump changed into due to meet German Chancellor Angela Merkel on the summit later inside the day and could meet Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki on Monday.
Berlin has given political aid to the constructing of a brand new, $US11 billion pipeline to bring Russian fuel throughout the Baltic Sea.
Merkel insists the undertaking is a private industrial venture and is not funded via German taxpayers.
"when Germany makes a massive oil and gasoline deal with Russia, we are speculated to be guarding against Russia and Germany goes out and can pay billions and billions of bucks a year to Russia," Trump stated to Stoltenberg Germany over fuel pipe deal
6:07pm Jul eleven, 2018
US President Donald Trump has released a pointy public attack on Germany over its Baltic Sea gasoline pipeline address Russia.
Speakme to NATO Secretary-general Jens Stoltenberg earlier than a summit in Brussels, Trump said Berlin had grow to be "a captive to Russia" and he criticised it for failing to further raise defence spending.
Trump stated it become "very beside the point" that the united states became procuring european defence towards Russia whilst Germany, the biggest european financial system, turned into helping gasoline offers with Moscow.
Trump changed into due to meet German Chancellor Angela Merkel on the summit later inside the day and could meet Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki on Monday.
Berlin has given political aid to the constructing of a brand new, $US11 billion pipeline to bring Russian fuel throughout the Baltic Sea.
Merkel insists the undertaking is a private industrial venture and is not funded via German taxpayers.
"when Germany makes a massive oil and gasoline deal with Russia, we are speculated to be guarding against Russia and Germany goes out and can pay billions and billions of bucks a year to Russia," Trump stated to Stoltenberg
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