Discussion on NATO and Middle East Relations

that works between us.

There are those that I don't have a good chemistry with, I will tell you that.

And we work that out too.

Mr. President, are you likely to announce further troop drawdowns in Europe?

Say it?

Are further troop drawdowns in Europe likely?

And are you satisfied with the progress that NATO allies have made?

Well, we're going to see.

I was very disappointed with NATO.

And frankly, if it weren't held in Turkey, where my friend happens to be a very strong

leader, a very strong person, it's possible that I wouldn't have attended.

I felt I had to attend because of the fact that, you know, I know he's gone all out.

It was a big thing to have NATO come to Turkey or anyplace else.

It's a big thing.

But we weren't treated well because we did something in Iran.

We don't need anybody's help.

I didn't even want their help.

But before I asked, they said they wouldn't be there.

And we've invested trillions of dollars in NATO.

Why?

To protect European countries and others, Canada, etc.

But to protect people, countries from, generally speaking, it used to be the Soviet Union,

now it's Russia.

And I say that's fine, but you would think that they'd be very willing to do something

to help us.

And they really weren't.

In the case of the United Kingdom, the prime minister, I guess he's no longer there, maybe

because of this.

It was a very unpopular thing he did.

He said, no, we'll help after the war is over.

I said, I don't need that kind of help.

We didn't need any help at all.

And in a way, I was testing people.

I was testing to see whether or not they'd be there, because I've long said that we help

them, but I'm not sure that they'd be there for us.

And Italy turned us down, and Germany turned us down, and France turned us down.

And that's okay.

But, you know, why are we spending hundreds of billions of dollars, and they're not there

for us?

We've always been there for them.

The Press- Turkey and Syria are at war with each other in Turkey.

Mr. President, you've made a lot of effort to end the war in Iran.

The negotiation process continues, but it hasn't reached a final agreement.

How will Turkey take the next step in the process to have a positive outcome of the

negotiation process between Iran and the United States?

In this process, we are in the process of trying to find a way to straighten the relations

between Iran and the United States.

We are trying to do what we can to take a step towards world peace.

We are trying to do what we can to take a step towards world peace.