After repeatedly threatening to pull out of the alliance over the last several months, Donald Trump’s administration now claims NATO “turned their backs” on the U.S. after its partners refused to join the president’s war in Iran.
While the alliance contends with a possible future without the U.S., NATO’s secretary general Mark Rutte — who has spent a year fawning over Trump in an apparent attempt to diplomatically stroke the president’s ego — is tasked with keeping the president close.
