All eyes on Brussels and Trump tomorrow...
When President Trump told a rally in Montana last week that Americans are "schmucks" for carrying the defense burden of wealthy European countries, he set the stage for another contentious meeting of US allies at the NATO summit in Brussels tomorrow, Howard LaFranchi reports on csmonitor.com.
But the bit of coarse presidential hyperbole also raised anew a question that has nagged US presidents since the end of the cold war, LaFranchi wrote.
It's a question that has only sharpened under an "America first" president who broadly questions the many multilateral arrangements the US has led since World War II, he noted.
In short, it's this: Is NATO worth it? Do American taxpayers, and what Trump refers to as the American "piggy bank," get their money's worth for participating in and indeed leading Europe's defense?
For a timely and thoughtful article: https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Foreign-Policy/2018/0710/Does-old-squabble-over-NATO-s-costs-mask-US-shift-away-from-Europe?cmpid=FB&utm_campaign=Echobox&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook#Echobox=1531256903
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Is the US squabble really just about cost?
When President Trump told a rally in Montana last week that Americans are "schmucks" for carrying the defense burden of wealthy European countries, he set the stage for another contentious meeting of US allies at the NATO summit in Brussels tomorrow, Howard LaFranchi reports on csmonitor.com.
But the bit of coarse presidential hyperbole also raised anew a question that has nagged US presidents since the end of the cold war, LaFranchi wrote.
It's a question that has only sharpened under an "America first" president who broadly questions the many multilateral arrangements the US has led since World War II, he noted.
In short, it's this: Is NATO worth it? Do American taxpayers, and what Trump refers to as the American "piggy bank," get their money's worth for participating in and indeed leading Europe's defense?
For a timely and thoughtful article: https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Foreign-Policy/2018/0710/Does-old-squabble-over-NATO-s-costs-mask-US-shift-away-from-Europe?cmpid=FB&utm_campaign=Echobox&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook#Echobox=1531256903
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