German warning about the “disaster” of Trump’s return

According to the report of Fars News Agency International Group, the Minister of Defense of Germany made a news-making comment about one year before the 2024 US presidential election and called for the independent focus of European countries to deal with the challenges of this continent. .

German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius announced at the “Berlin Foreign Policy Council” meeting on Tuesday (yesterday) that if Donald Trump wins the 2024 US presidential election, this issue will be for Europe will be a disaster.

According to media sources such as Anatoli, Pistorius mentioned the competition between Joe Biden and Donald Trump and, without naming them, about the victory of the current American president He expressed hope.

The German Defense Minister said: “Whoever comes to the White House, one case (Trump’s victory for Europe) will be a disaster, and the other case (Biden’s victory) will be much better.” It will be”.

Of course, he emphasized to the senior European officials that regardless of who wins the US presidential election, the European continent is facing many challenges.

In the opinion of this German official, even if Democrat Joe Biden, who supports the deepening of US-European relations, wins the election, Europe still faces a challenge because Washington’s future focus will be on Asia-Pacific.

Boris Pistorius said at the German think tank in Berlin: “If they (the Americans) do that, then they probably won’t be able to maintain their engagement in Europe at the previous level.”

The German Minister of Defense believes that after the US presidential election, the European countries that are members of the “North Atlantic Treaty Organization” (known as NATO) should take more responsibility for the security of Europe.

The statements of this senior European official about the US presidential election and his warning about Trump’s re-victory were raised in a situation where Europe and America experienced cold and sometimes tense relations during his presidency.

Donald Trump, who according to many polls is the leading candidate of the Republican Party for the presidential elections, during his four years of presidency (2007 to 2021) many times from the positions of Germany and other European countries. The NATO member criticized and repeatedly warned that America will withdraw its troops from Europe. According to him, the United States should not bear the costs of defending NATO alone.

Trump’s harsh statements against the European countries that are members of NATO have caused tensions in the relations between the two sides of the Atlantic (Europe and the United States). ) and had raised doubts about Washington’s commitment to the fifth paragraph of the NATO charter. According to the fifth article of the NATO charter, any aggression or armed attack on a NATO member country means aggression against all The member states of this treaty are considered and based on it, NATO will implement its common defense system.

North Atlantic Treaty Organization or NATO, April 4, 1949 (April 15, 1328) with the aim of defense A gathering was established in Washington DC, the capital of America, and became the world’s largest military treaty.

In his speech yesterday, the German Defense Minister called for more cooperation among European countries in the field of weapons. He implicitly called for independence from America and for Europeans to focus on creating compatible weapon systems.

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