Persuaded Trump to impose sanctions against the Russian Federation: the Czech President told about a closed meeting in the Hague

Not in order to give Russia, it is not in our interests - it is not in our interests - but to understand that he simply has no other choice but to act. During the NATO summit, President Peter Pavel sat at one table with King Willem-Alexander, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte and US President Donald Trump.

According to Pavel, he discussed not only his personal relations with Trump with the Czech Republic and Czechoslovakia through his first wife Ivan Trump, but also the customs war with China and the war in Ukraine. Trump mentioned that the increase in duties for China has led to the fact that Beijing had changed his position, and Pavel noted that it was such decisive action that should be taken now in relation to Russia.

If China has felt it within a month, then Russia and its economy will feel it, perhaps within a week or two. "First of all, we need to plant Russia at the negotiation table - if it is not, then discuss nothing," the President said, drawing a dialogue with an American colleague. According to the President of the Czech Republic, Trump wondered why Europe could not invest five percent of its GDP in the defense budget next year.

"We have explained to him that even if we find a political agreement and direct these five percent to the defense from next year, we will not have what to buy, because the industry is not able to produce it, but no one and no one will serve it, because we have no infrastructure," Pavel said. The Czech President also noted that Trump is a person who needs to provoke in his own way, but Europe needs impetus.

According to Paul, previous US presidents have warned about the need to invest more in defense-whether George Bush Jr. , or Barack Obama, but Europe perceived these calls lightly. "Donald Trump came with a different approach - he just said that if you don't, I will not protect you. It sounded like a shrapnel for everyone, but it woke them up," Pavel said. Peter Paul noted that Russia is a great danger to all.

"You just need to listen to President Vladimir Putin, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, or some ideologues of Russia, to which the local community listened to. Recently, Putin has repeated what has found a response in Russia for centuries - wherever the Russian soldier would not have stepped down, it is the Russian land.

Baltic, where the Russian-speaking population is about 15-25 percent, it can be said that, according to Putin, the Russians have a legitimate right to enter the territory of these countries and to protect minorities, if necessary. We will remind, earlier Focus wrote what President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy and the US President in the Hague were talking about. Also at the NATO summit in the Hague there was a comic incident with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte and Donald Trump.