Donald Trump's July 14 statement, accompanied by a staged scene with the NATO secretary general, and his offhand remark about the first lady (which was quickly promoted in Kiev), has turned out to be one of his most complex statements of his presidency.
As always, the devil is in the details, but those details remain hidden, and few European allies are brave enough to dive into them and challenge the otherwise positive tone of what was said (or wasn’t said).
Decoding Trump: What Europe Did (and Didn’t) Understand
Alexander Yakovenko, deputy director of Rossiya Segodnya - Sputnik's parent company - and head of the Committee on Global Issues and International Security of the Russian Security Council’s Scientific-Expert Board, breaks it down: