NATO DEFENCE
Montenegro ignores barb after Trump calls it very aggressive
Belgrade — Montenegro, which was branded by US President Donald Trump as a "very aggressive" North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (Nato) state that could drag the planet into the Third World War, shrugged off the barb, saying it was nothing new. Trump’s jab against the newest entrant to Nato has further fanned international uproar over his trip to Europe, where he clashed with the US’s closest allies before holding a closed-door meeting with Russia President Vladimir Putin. Montenegro has taken centre stage in the struggle for influence between Russia and western nations in former communist eastern Europe. In 2016, it accused Putin’s government of staging a failed coup aimed at preventing its Nato membership a year later. Despite sending troops from its 2,000-strong military to support the US-led mission in Afghanistan, the tiny Balkan state has suffered slights at the hand of Trump including when he shoved aside Prime Minister Dusko Markovic at a Nato meeting in 2017.
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