BRUSSELS, Jan 21 — Nato is facing the biggest crisis in its history over Donald Trump’s Greenland threats, and the time for “flattering” the US leader is over, former...
Anders Fogh Rasmussen , a former Danish prime minister who led Nato from 2009 to 2014, urged the alliance’s current head, Mark Rutte, and other European leaders to start taking a tougher line with the US president after he threatened tariffs.
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