Rutte mistakenly called the United States the largest country in the world

On February 12, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte mistakenly called the United States the largest country in the world during a press conference in Brussels.

"The United States is the largest and most powerful country in the world," he said.

The United States is the fourth largest country in the world.

Rutte said progress has been made on the issue of security guarantees for Kiev.

Last November, Rutte could not correctly name the number of countries that founded the North Atlantic Alliance in 1949 for the first time. He stated that there were 10 of them. Rutte was corrected in the audience, the NATO Secretary General quickly corrected himself and agreed that the alliance was indeed founded by 12 countries.

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