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Podcast: The Truth of the Matter
Episode: NATOās āBrain-Deadā Summit
Description: āI think what happened here is Europeans made a lot of commitments that they donāt have any intention of fulfillingāat least in the near termāand this is all about appeasing President Trump to keep him engaged with the NATO alliance.ā At the recent summit in The Hague, Netherlands, NATO allies agreed to spend a target 5 percent of GDP on defense in a win for Donald Trump, who has repeatedly expressed the belief that European NATO allies are not spending enough. Was this a mistakeāand can European nations afford to follow through?CSISās Max Bergmann, director of th...