Montenegro Rebuffs Trump Over ‘Threat to US’ Claim

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Montenegro Rebuffs Trump Over ‘Threat to US’ Claim
Dusica Tomovic

Montenegro said it cherishes its strong friendship with the US and insisted it is a peaceful partner after President Donald Trump described the country as a potential threat to world peace.

After President Trump described Montenegro as a potential source of global conflict, the Montenegrin government said on Thursday that the country is proud of its friendship and alliance with the US, describing the relationship between the two countries as “strong and permanent”.

"In today's world, it does not matter how big or small you are, but to what extent you cherish the values of freedom, solidarity and democracy," said an official statement adopted by Prime Minister Dusko Markovic at a government session.

Read more at: http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/montenegro-brushes-off-trump-s-claims-of-being-threat-for-us-07-19-2018

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Per the article:

Article 5 of the Atlantic Treaty requires all members to help defend fellow member nations that have been attacked.

The only time Article 5 has been invoked so far was when NATO states joined the US military in Afghanistan in response to the 9/11 attacks.

Whatever one thinks of Turkey or any other member state for that matter, they all helped us out.

Yes, Turkey acts excessively as of now, it is interesting how 2 years ago or so, it was a Turkish/Russian war that was being talked out as a possibility after the problems in Syria,  Russian pilot shot down by the Tribal Turkmen in Syria and that poor Russian ambassador killed at the art gallery in Turkey.

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‘Let’s Leave Trump Alone’: Montenegro Shrugs Off World War III Comments
By Gordana Filipovic

Montenegro, branded by U.S. President Donald Trump as a "very aggressive" NATO state that could drag the planet into World War III, shrugged off the barb, saying it was nothing new.

Trump’s jab against the smallest and newest entrant to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization has further fanned international uproar over his trip to Europe, where he clashed with the U.S.’s closest allies before holding a closed-door meeting with President Vladimir Putin.

Montenegro has taken center stage in the struggle for influence between Russia and Western nations in former communist eastern Europe. In 2016, it accused Putin’s government of staging a failed coup aimed at preventing its NATO membership a year later. Despite sending troops from its 2,000-strong military to support the U.S.-led mission in Afghanistan, the tiny Balkan state has suffered slights at the hand of Trump, including when he shoved aside Prime Minister Dusko Markovic at a NATO meeting last year.

Read more at: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-19/-very-aggressive-montenegro-defends-trump-on-world-war-iii-jab

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'Very aggressive': Trump suggests Montenegro could cause world war three

Donald Trump has drawn fresh scorn for attacking Montenegro, whose people he described as “very aggressive”, suggesting the small nation could be the cause of a third world war.

Days after a widely-criticised summit with his Russian counterpart, Trump’s comments were decried as a “gift to Putin”.

In an interview with Fox News, Trump also called into question Nato’s founding principle. He was asked about Article 5, Nato’s common defence clause which states that an attack on one member is an attack on all.

Read more at: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jul/19/very-aggressive-trump-suggests-montenegro-could-cause-world-war-three

Stories on the same topic, to avoid a glut on largely, the very same story, added on here.

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Per post #1, Trump shoving aside Markovic:



Okay, some of this, it's almost 98% theory, Montenegro is not on its way of getting into a big conflict though, the Balkans are the Balkans. Perhaps one could say, where do we draw the line in allowing new Nato members? That would seem to be a valid point.

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Topics merged, all about the same stories and stories I posted, so no hard feelings.