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According to Business Insider, Montenegro is defending itself from Donald Trump. Days after his trip to Europe, Trump mentioned Montenegro, the alliance's newest member. In an interview, Fox News host Tucker Carlson asked Trump a rhetorical question. "Why should my son go to Montenegro to defend it from attack?" Carlson was referring to NATO's collective-defense clause. NATO Article V commits members to defending other members when they are attack. His rhetorical question, however, prompted the US President to adlib. "I understand what you're saying. I've asked the same questionMontenegro is a tiny country with very strong people. ... They're very strong people. They're very aggressive people. They may get aggressive and congratulations, you're in World War III." Trump's comments prompted swift backlash from inside and outside of Montenegro. "If one believes that NATO still serves any valid security purpose in Europe, then picking and choosing from among its members which ones we would choose to defend can only corrode the alliance and invite challenges that we would ultimately find problematical... It is particularly harmful for the president to speculate about such things in TV interviews." Barry Posen director of the security-studies program at MIT. Montenegro responded to Trump's statement, underscoring its commitment to NATO. "Montenegro is proud of its history and tradition and peaceful politics that led to the position of a stabilising state in the region and the only state in which the war didn't rage during disintegration of the former Yugoslavia...The country that was the first in Europe to resist the Fascism, and today as a new NATO member and a candidate for the EU membership it contributes to peace and stability not only on the European continent but worldwide, along with US soldiers in Afghanistan." This is not the first brush-up Trump has had with the small country. Trump famously pushed aside Prime Minister Dusko Markovic at a NATO summit in May 2017.

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