Washington
is increasingly not interested in being the world policeman, US President
Donald Trump has said, noting the country spent "tremendous amount of
money" on policing the world.
“More
and more, [we] are not wanting to be the policeman of the world,” Trump said in a joint press conference with Nigerian
President Muhammadu Buhari at the White House. He was commenting on a question
whether the latter managed to convince him to up the US troop presence in that
country.
“We’re
spending tremendous amount of money for decades on policing the world, and that
shouldn’t be our priority. We want to police ourselves. We want to rebuild our
country,” Trump said.
Buhari said
the US has offered teams of advisers who are training the Nigerian security
forces, and called it “one of the best things the US can do for us, to
stabilize the country.”
Source: RT