European Union member nations have reacted with surprise and defiance to comments by President-elect Donald Trump, who has said in an interview that he believes NATO is "obsolete" and that more member states will leave the 28-nation EU.
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"I believe others will leave ... I do think keeping it together is not gonna be as easy as a lot of people think," Trump said in the interview.
The British exit from the EU would "end up being a great thing", he said.
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Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Germany's foreign minister, speaking on Monday before a meeting of EU foreign ministers, said Trump's view on NATO and criticism that allied members were not paying their fair share has "caused astonishment".
His French counterpart Jean-Marc Ayrault said the best response to such an interview was simple: Europeans uniting.
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Though Trump had made similar comments during his tempestuous election campaign, a repetition of the same points still came as a bit of a surprise since his choice for defence secretary, James Mattis, stressed his support for the alliance in his US congressional confirmation hearings last week.
al Jazeera
...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.
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