NATO’s dialogues: America’s (next) threat to go

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  The Economist.

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  I'm Rosie Blau.

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  But first, from the Suez Crisis to the Vietnam War to the invasion of Iraq,

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  non-European wars have a way of tugging at the fabric of NATO.

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  Given President Donald Trump's long-standing animus towards the alliance,

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  and perhaps a misunderstanding of what its charter actually stipulates about mutual aid,

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  this time it may be torn apart.

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  Mark Rutte, NATO's chief, attended a closed-door meeting yesterday with Mr. Trump,

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  presumably to smooth ruffled feathers,

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  and then he headed to CNN to chat about it.

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