President Donald Trump has expressed his support for the collective defense offered by NATO in a reversal of his previous criticism of the alliance. Trump was asked by the BBC whether he still thought the alliance was "obsolete" as he had previously said,

Russia does not care about U.S. President Donald Trump 's "theatrical ultimatum" about slapping sanctions on buyers of Russian exports unless Moscow agrees to a peace deal in Ukraine, a senior securi...

"The U.S. president's statements are very serious. Some of them are addressed personally to President Putin," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters.

Some conservative members of Donald Trump's "Make America Great Again" movement have reacted angrily to the president's plans to sell weapons to Nato, arguing it is a betrayal of his promise to end US involvement in foreign wars.

Trump said that he is “very unhappy” with Russia and that the U.S. will send weapons to Ukraine through NATO, which will pay for and distribute them, and threatened secondary tariffs targeting Russia ...

“We’re going to be doing very severe tariffs if we don’t have a deal in 50 days, tariffs at about 100 per cent, you’d call them secondary tariffs,” he added.