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Turkey-U.S. Tiff Shows How Deep NATO’s Problems Run
Europe can’t just blame Trump if everything falls apart.
- Hal Brands
- Bloomberg
NATO is having a rough summer.
Fresh off President Trump’s deliberately disruptive behavior at the alliance summit in July, NATO has suffered a high-stakes blowup between two key members: the U.S. and…
That dispute crystallized over the fate of an American pastor, Andrew Brunson, being held in Turkey on spurious charges of supporting a failed coup against Recep Tayyip Erdogan in 2016.
It has been punctuated by economic sanctions, escalating threats and counter-threats, and speculation that…