From stroking US President Donald Trump’s ego to a “Finnish solution” for peace in Ukraine, former NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg opens up about his decade as head of the alliance in a new memoir.

In “On My Watch” launched Monday in Norway, Stoltenberg revealed behind-the-scenes details of a 2018 NATO summit when Trump, during his first term, threatened to walk out due to a number of European countries’ failures to meet NATO’s two percent defence budget target.

“I’m leaving this meeting. There’s no reason for me to be here anymore,” an angry Trump said, especially annoyed by Germany under then-chancellor Angela Merkel, which was still far from the spending target.

In a bid to get the US leader to stay, Mark Rutte — at the time Dutch prime minister, before going on to succeed Stoltenberg as

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