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What an Ambitious NATO Summit Could Achieve
Sadly, it’s unlikely to happen. But it’s a useful thought experiment.
Flying different directions.
Photographer: Petras Malukas/AFP/Getty Images
Ordinarily when NATO’s 29 national leaders get together, everybody involved pushes for all the good things they want the alliance to do. At this week’s summit in Brussels, they’ll mainly be hoping to keep anything bad from happening.
The center of Europe’s current concerns will come as no surprise: It’s the United States. Is the Trump administration about to end military exercises in Eastern Europe, cut funding for the U.S. European Command, or even pull American troops out of Germany?