WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – US President Donald Trump does not understand the importance of alliances and is wrong to antagonize NATO member states and specifically Germany during the military alliance\u2019s summit in Brussels on Wednesday, former US Secretary of State John Kerry said in a statement on Wednesday.<\/b>
\n\u00ab\u00a0President Trump makes public adversaries out of our friends, and turns our adversary, who has been attacking America\u2019s democracy, into his fawned-over ally. Why?\u00a0\u00bb Kerry said via Twitter. \u00ab\u00a0Why would an American president whose first NATO meeting last year was a disaster, show up in Belgium this year just to prove he doesn\u2019t understand how vital alliances have made a huge difference for the security of the United States and the lives of Europeans?\u00a0\u00bb
Kerry called Trump\u2019s remarks disgraceful, destructive and against the interests of the United States.
\u00ab\u00a0[Trump] is steadily destroying our reputation in the world. He is undermining our interests,\u00a0\u00bb he noted.
Such approach diminishes the alliances the United States has built to safeguard its economic and strategic goals that have allowed millions of people to live in freedom, Kerry added.
Earlier on Wednesday, Trump singled out Germany during the NATO summit for working on the Nord Stream 2 pipeline with Russia and for buying Russian oil and gas.
The US president said heavy reliance on Russian oil and gas supplies was \u00ab\u00a0inappropriate,\u00a0\u00bb and urged NATO to discuss the \u00ab\u00a0billions and billions of dollars\u00a0\u00bb paid to Moscow. Moreover, Trump also called Germany \u00ab\u00a0a captive\u00a0\u00bb of Russia.<\/p>\n

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