The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, NATO, has said that trade tensions unleashed by US President Donald Trump will not harm the transatlantic alliance’s collective deterrence. NATO chief Mark Rutte made this statement on Monday shortly after meeting with British Premier Keir Starmer in Brussels.

NATO's secretary general is downplaying the threat of a trade war between the United States and Canada — two founding members of the Western military alliance — as a dispute that could be managed.Mark Rutte,

There’s a trade war a-brewin’ — and we’re not talking about the on-again, off-again one between the U.S. and Mexico, Canada and China. We’re talking about the one happening inside President DONALD TRUMP’s mind.