Is Donald Trump betraying our allies?
"Putin has wanted NATO weakened since before he had the power to do anything about it. In 2005, he called the breakup of the Soviet Union “the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century.” He has spent the years since trying to reverse it, piece by piece and border by border. And the one thing standing between his ambitions and the map he wants is a unified Western alliance with the United States at its center. Remove the United States from that center, and the entire architecture shifts. The deterrence collapses, and the calculation changes for every country on Russia’s border.
What Trump is doing has Putin written all over it. And if he had nothing to do with it directly, he is still going to be thrilled. He has dreamed of this for decades. A weakened Europe and a retreating America. An alliance fracturing from the inside, not from Russian military pressure, but from an American president doing the work for him, for free, out of spite and ignorance."
Heather Delaney Reese dixit
