Politics
Trump’s Huawei Demands Risk Splintering NATO Support
The alliance is being hectored by the leader of the superpower that founded it.
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NATO is a slightly odd collection of countries. Some of its 29 members fought wars against each other. Some are sparring even now over territory and influence. One—Turkey—is busily stirring the pot over everything from Syria to Libya to control of energy sources in the eastern Mediterranean.
Even so, for 70 years the alliance has provided a security umbrella across Europe, held together in no small measure by the moral and financial imprimatur of the U.S. Differences have been papered over because states have kept their eyes on the prize of collective defense.