European leaders have called for greater unity and military cooperation across the continent in response to comments from Donald Trump that threatened to undermine the basis of Nato.

Donald Tusk, Poland’s prime minister, said on a visit to Paris on Monday that there was “no alternative” to the EU and the transatlantic alliance before a summit in which he discussed deepening defence relationships with the French president, Emmanuel Macron.

“It is probably here in Paris that the words from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas resonate most clearly: ‘All for one, and one for all,’” said Tusk, in a thinly veiled riposte to the former US president and frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination.

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    7 months ago

    Also get rid of Turkey while we’re at it. If I were forced to fight down there I’d fight along the Kurds.

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      7 months ago

      It’s hard to overstate the strategic importance of the Bosporus Strait

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        7 months ago

        Of course - and hopefully soon Erdogan will rot and someone more worthy will take over. I’m not saying we should stop considering Turkey allies, I just don’t want to depend on them that’s all.