For the second time in the still-quite-young 2026 calendar year, President Donald Trump is threatening to blow up the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, which Americans decidedly like, over a foreign policy adventure they decidedly do not.
First it was his designs on taking Greenland. Now it’s the Iran war.
Trump has repeatedly directed his ire toward NATO members over their lack of assistance to the US against Iran. After calling NATO a “paper tiger” and saying he was considering withdrawing from the alliance last week, he hosted on Wednesday NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, who told
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