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- Trump says UK would fight for US, suggests cannot say the same for EU</p>
<p>July 15, 2025 at 4:18 AM</p>
<p>LONDON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump said he believed Britain would fight to defend the United States but suggested he could not say the same for the European Union, a factor in his decision not to sign a trade deal with the bloc.</p>
<p>Trump told the BBC in an interview published on Tuesday that he also still had doubts about support from NATO members, even after they agreed to increase defence spending.</p>
<p>"One of the problems with NATO, as I said, we have to fight for them, but will they actually fight for us if we had a war?"</p>
<p>"And I'm not sure I can say it, but I will say this, I believe that the UK would fight with us," he said.</p>
<p>"I think that they would be with us. I'm not sure that a lot of the other countries would be."</p>
<p>Trump said this was a factor in his willingness to grant Britain some exemptions from his tariff programme. In contrast, he has threatened a 30% tariff on European goods.</p>
<p>"Look, that's why I made a deal with them, and I haven't made a deal, I mean, I've made some other deals, but for the most part, in terms of your competitors, and in terms of the European Union, I haven't made a deal," he told the BBC.</p>
<p>The only time NATO has activated Article 5 - the cornerstone of its founding treaty which stipulates that an attack on one is an attack on all - was on behalf of the United States, in response to the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.</p>
<p>British troops supported the U.S. in conflicts that followed in Afghanistan and Iraq but since then, the army has reduced in size.</p>
<p>(Reporting by Sachin Ravikumar; writing by Kate Holton, editing by Elizabeth Piper and Bernadette Baum)</p>
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