The US ambassador to NATO, Julianne Smith, sharply criticized former US president Donald Trump’s statements on alliance defence spending as “dangerous, and frankly, irresponsible.” “Encouraging the Kremlin to attack any NATO ally or alliance territory really puts our soldiers, US soldiers, and our allies’ soldiers in greater danger,” Smith said on Tuesday in Brussels. Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee for the November US election, said at a campaign event in the state of South Carolina on Saturday that he would “encourage” Russia “to do whatever the hell they want” to NATO countries th…