Rutte’s Quiet Orbit: How Europe’s Trump Whisperer Steers NATO and the Continent
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Dutch prime minister Mark Rutte, portrayed as Europe’s Trump whisperer, uses personal diplomacy and flattery to broker deals with Donald Trump—defusing tariff threats, nudging talks on Arctic presence in Greenland, and keeping NATO allies aligned—while leveraging pragmatic coalition-building to navigate Europe’s political landscape.
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