Nato chief Mark Rutte has thrown Giorgia Meloni into a fresh political storm by revealing that Rome allowed “500 US planes” to take off from bases in Italy as part of the US-Israeli bombing of Iran.
President Donald Trump is furious with several European allies — including the Italian prime minister — over what he claims is their failure to provide sufficient support in the Middle East war.
But ahead of a meeting with Trump in Washington on Wednesday, Rutte pushed back against those claims, saying European Nato members such as Italy had quietly allowed the use of their bases, even if they avoided making a public show of it for domestic political reasons.
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