Rubio aims to ease tensions with NATO allies
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Secretary of state suggests July meeting of alliance will be fraught as US demands help in strait of Hormuz
President Donald Trump says he wants to send more troops to Poland, a week after his officials cancelled a similar deployment.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Thursday criticized NATO for not being of assistance in the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran. Rubio is heading to a meeting with the alliance's foreign ministers in Sweden.
By Sabine Siebold, Stine Jacobsen and Michael Martina HELSINGBORG, Sweden May 22 (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio will meet NATO allies on Friday for the first time since President Donald Trump called the alliance into question due to divisions over the Iran war and Washington announced plans to pull 5,
NATO leaders must deal with a division in the alliance regarding the response to US military actions against Iran at an upcoming summit in Ankara, according to US Secretary of State Marco Rubio. "The
Rubio did not deny reports that the U.S. will shrink the pool of military capabilities that it would have available to assist the alliance's European nations in a major crisis.
Kristine Berzina, Senior Fellow at the non-partisan think tank The German Marshall Fund, discusses the confusion over changing plans for U.S. troop deployments in Europe.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio is on his latest mission to assuage nervous U.S. allies in Europe about the Trump administration’s intentions with NATO or at least put a friendlier face on whipsawing changes and uncertainty about American troop reductions.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio ended a tense round of NATO talks in Sweden with a blunt message to European allies: Washington’s military footprint on the continent will shrink over time, but the US insists its commitment to NATO’s collective defense remains intact.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has raised fresh questions over NATO’s value to Washington, warning that the alliance “has to be valuable to the United States” as the Trump administration reassesses America’s military posture in Europe.