'It's possible' Putin will invade more than Ukraine, says Donald Trump

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'It's possible' Putin will invade more than Ukraine, says Donald Trump  The US president said at the NATO summit on Wednesday that negotiations over a ceasefire in Ukraine have proved trickier than people thought, and that Putin is "more difficult" than expected.     READ MORE : http://www.euronews.com/2025/06/25/its-possible-putin-will-invade-more-than-ukraine-says-donald-trump  Subscribe to our channel. Euronews is available on Dailymotion in 12 languages

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00:00Well, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said this NATO summit here at The Hague would be the Trump summit

00:05because of the push by Donald Trump for NATO allies to agree to spend 5% of GDP on defense by 2035,

00:13the next 10 years, which is no mean feat because you're talking about tens of billions of dollars or euros.

00:19In addition, we saw this statement from all allies at the end, which is five paragraphs long.

00:24Normally, these things run into several pages, and chief among them is an ironclad commitment for all allies to Article 5,

00:31which is the article in the NATO Charter which says an attack on one is an attack on all.

00:35This is interesting because Donald Trump himself had cast doubt about America's commitment to this article just before he touched down.

00:42And also very interesting is the role of Ukraine in this statement.

00:45It's quite low down, about the fourth paragraph, but it also says that Ukraine's security contributes to NATO security,

00:52which I think is a bit of a watering down compared to what other NATO allies had said to me in the past few weeks.

00:58They had said that they'd hoped that Ukraine's security would be inextricable to NATO's security.

01:04But Russia also in there as a long-term enemy or a long-term concern and threat to NATO.

01:10Many people would also say it's an immediate threat too.

01:13Shona Murray, Euronews, The Hague.

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