It was a day full of mixed signals and tense handshakes in Brussels on Thursday. President Trump began the last leg of his world tour, making the rounds at NATO, where he failed to articulate a strong U.S. commitment to Article 5, while at the same time lecturing allies for not living up to their commitments to defense spending over the years.Perhaps more jarring than Trump’s seeming ambivalence was the image of his staffers immediately jumping in to clarify that the United States was, in fact, fully committed to NATO’s collective defense clause. One GOP national security official felt he …read more
Source: The American Interest
