Video “He is the head of Russian diplomacy from the birth of Jesus Christ.” The head of NATO ironizes Lavrov, after the Russian minister speculated the collapse of the Alliance
The Secretary General of NATO Mark Rutte, photo: Khalil Hamra / AP / Profimedia Images
After Sergei Lavrov speculated, at the end of June, that the increase of the defense expenses of the NATO states will lead to the collapse of the Alliance, the Secretary General of NATO, Mark Rutte, responded with sarcasm. Considered a licking with Donald Trump, Rutte adopted a sharp tone this time, notes Le Figaro, according to News.ro.
“Sergei Lavrov is the head of Russian diplomacy since the birth of Jesus Christ. And since then nothing constructive has come out of his mouth. So let's not pay too much attention to him,” said Mark Rutte in an intervention at Fox News.
Russian diplomat holds the position of Minister of Foreign Affairs in 2004 and is the longest -lived Russian Minister of Moscow in Andrei Gromîko during the Soviet Union.
This type of phrase could have been very good to be interpreted as a “deepfake”, the result of artificial intelligence. However, in the context of the Ukraine war, everything is true, writes Le Figaro.
The video, distributed on social networks, was also posted by the American television station close to President Trump on his YouTube channel.
The Moscow replica has not left expected. “Lavrov worked for so many years, since he made the Secretary General of NATO to remember Jesus Christ,” commented for the spokesman of Russian diplomacy, Maria Zaharova.
NATO countries have engaged in the Hague Summit to increase their military expenses, a “great victory” claimed by Donald Trump. In the final declaration, the member countries promise to invest 5% of the gross domestic product (GDP) annually in security by 2035.
Specifically, allies want to allocate “at least 3.5% of GDP” to military expenses and 1.5% for large -sense security, such as “critical infrastructure protection” and network defense. Several European leaders, including Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, have already warned that these levels are difficult to reach. In the final statement, the member countries remind the “long -term” threat that Russia represents and their commitment to support Ukraine, also “long -term”.
The day before, Donald Trump had revealed on his social network Truth Social the enthusiastic messages Mark Rutte addressed after American attacks against Iran nuclear installations.
“Congratulations and thank you for your decisive action in Iran. It was really extraordinary and something no one else dared to do,” Rutte wrote.
On the day of the summit, a new statement by the Secretary General of NATO surprised. Mark Rutte used the surprising nickname “Daddy” (“father”) to describe Donald Trump after the US president compared Israel and Iran with two children fighting.
“Daddy has to raise the voice sometimes,” commented the former prime minister of the Netherlands. “I did not tell him” Daddy “, he defended later in front of the journalists. “What I said is that sometimes, in Europe, I hear countries saying,” Hey, Mark, the United States will stay with us? “And I said that the situation resembles a little child who asks his father:” Hey, do you stay with your family? ” In this sense I used the word “father”, and not because I would have told President Trump, “he assured.
