President Donald Trump is continuing his foreign odyssey with a stop in Brussels to meet leaders of other NATO members. The visit is primarily a meet-and-greet highlighted by dinner, but it illustrates the president’s apparent capture by Washington’s conventional wisdom.
No international institution may better illustrate Public Choice economics than the transatlantic alliance, which survived despite the demise of the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact. Indeed, NATO’s boosters now are proclaiming a grand revival and pressing for an ever greater U.S. commitment to the organization.
Yet the NATO now-and-forever caucus ignores the larger reality against which U.S. foreign policy must be judged. …read more
Source: The American Conservative
