After all, it formed nearly 70 years ago in response to the growing strength of the Soviet Union.
It comes as tensions remain high between the USA and Russian Federation and on the heels of the president's airstrike against Syria in retaliation for President Bashar Assad's chemical attack against his people. "The world's two foremost nuclear powers can not have this kind of relationship", Tillerson - who once received a medal of friendship from Putin - told a Moscow news conference.
SCOTT HORSLEY, BYLINE: Well, part of it is that chill in U.S. -Russia relations, especially after last week's chemical weapons attack by Russia's ally Syria and the retaliatory strike by the United States. That, Trump said, is "very bad for Russia" and "very bad for mankind" and the world.
"This has built for a long period of time". "We are present in the wider Middle East region helping partners like Jordan (and) Tunisia to stabilize their countries and to fight terrorism".
"As President Trump has made clear", Tillerson said, "it is no longer sustainable for the U.S.to maintain a disproportionate share of NATO's defense expenditures". Its involvement in that war came after the United States invoked NATO's Article 5, the provision calling for collective defense, after the September 11, 2001 terror attacks.
Trump's comments on the state of U.S. He raises it just about every chance he gets.
In brief remarks, Trump again called on North Atlantic Treaty Organisation members to "meet their financial obligations and pay what they owe", noting that member-states are expected to contribute 2 per cent of their gross domestic product (GDP) to defence. But Stoltenberg says the number is growing.
JENS STOLTENBERG: So they have started to move in the right direction. But at least they have turned a corner. Instead of reducing defense spending, they have started to increase defense spending. Germany spends only about 1.2 percent of its GDP on its defense.
"I think he wants to help us with North Korea", Trump said.
NY Times jumps the gun on Pulitzer Prize announcement
Harvard graduate Mr Fahrenthold was honoured in the category of National Reporting , having spent 16 years at the Post . The Chicago Tribune - which, like the Sentinel , is owned by Tronc - won this year's Pulitzer for feature photography .
His comments, aired Wednesday on Fox Business News, come less than a week after Trump ordered a retaliatory strike on Syria based on USA evidence that Syrian President Bashar Assad attacked civilians with chemical weapons. That is certainly coloring USA relations with Moscow.
"I have absolutely no doubt we did the right thing", Trump said.
In his latest statement, Trump went back on his words and claimed the usa might be at an "all-time low" with Russian Federation. We'll see the end result - the end result is the most important, not just the talk.
"For Russia, this is something they did not want to see happen", NATO's Supreme Allied Commander Europe Gen. Curtis Scaparrotti told the House Armed Services Committee in March.
Trump tweets that he spoke with Xi on Tuesday night. How did that go?
HORSLEY: Trump had a lot of kind words for President Xi today.
Trump said he had a phone conversation on Tuesday night with Chinese President Xi Jinping, who he said "wants to do the right thing" and help the usa deal with North Korea. He said a USA declaration of Chinese manipulation could jeopardize efforts to secure the country's help in containing the threat posed by North Korea.
Trump told the paper he'd changed his mind because China hasn't been manipulating its currency for months.
Trump, who ran for the White House on a pledge to shake up the status quo in Washington, repeatedly lashed out at China during the campaign, accusing Beijing of being a "grand champion" of currency manipulation.
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