ostapa indeed, as you pointed out, rüte is famous for being able to find a common language with manyrrent and former top officials. western media in particular write that he still sometimes sees, for example, angela merkel, and he has good relations, as with both the current president of the united states, joe biden, and his predecessor, donald trump, who, as you noted, may return to the white house after the november election. the publication politico told the story of one of the contacts, when trump was indignant, being still an insufficient president. spending on their own defense by european countries, it was rut in 2018, the journalists write, who was able, so to speak, to appease the anger of the then president of the united states, who, as you know, still criticizes the allies for what he considers to be insufficient efforts in this direction. it is noteworthy that only this year the netherlands itself reached the long-agreed level of defense spending of 2% of gdp, and other cases are also mentioned by journalists, like ruute, with a polite smile. publicly denied to trump that