US PRESIDENT DONALD Trump claimed in a speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland today that the United States has never asked its Nato allies for anything.

Trump made the claim while pressing his case for an American acquisition of Greenland, which is part of the Kingdom of Denmark, a Nato member.

“The United States is treated very unfairly by Nato,” Trump said.

Trump also questioned other members states’ commitment to mutual defence alliance.

“The problem with NATO is that we’ll be there for them 100% but I’m not sure that they’ll be there for us,” Trump said.

“And when you think about it, nobody can dispute it, we give so much and we get so little in return.

“We never asked for anything, and we never got anything,” he claimed.

This is false,Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treatyhas only been invoked once, in defence of the US.

Article 5 states that an armed attack against one Nato member is considered an attack against all members, and triggers an obligation for them to come to its assistance.

After the Al-Qaeda attacks on the US on 11 September 2001, Nato invoked Article 5.

It had never been invoked before and has never been invoked since.

On top of that, Nato members have joined in US-led military operations in Afghanistan and Libya.

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