A message full of praise and compliments, which seems to exude admiration and reverence towards him. Enough to send Donald Trump into raptures and push him to publish it on his social media. The sender? NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, who in a series of text messages to the President of the United States made it crystal clear that behind NATO 's choice to raise military and security spending to 5% – which will be ratified at the summit in The Hague by tomorrow – there is the will of the tenant of the White House.

Rutte is unrestrained in his compliments to the US president, both for the raid against Iran that seems to have ended the 12-day war waged by Israel and for having convinced his NATO allies to spend more than double what they do so far on weapons and security. The tenor of his messages is of this type: “Congratulations and thank you for your decisive action in Iran, it was truly extraordinary and no one else would have dared to do it. Now we are all safer,” writes the former Dutch prime minister and now number one of the Atlantic Alliance.

Then he gets to the point, the part that most interests his role: “You are flying to another great success in The Hague tonight. It was not easy, but we convinced them all to sign for 5%,” reads the text published by Trump on Truth. If anyone still had doubts about who was the architect of the choice to significantly increase spending on weapons and defense, publicly opposed only by Spain and Slovakia , here is Rutte who removes all doubts: “Donald, you have brought us to a truly, truly important moment for America, for Europe and for the world. You will achieve something that no American president has achieved in decades. Europe will pay a huge price, as it should, and it will be a victory for you”.