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    Trump’s Message to NATO

    ‘We’re the schmucks paying for the whole thing.”
    by Krishnadev Calamur Jul 08, 2018 4 minutes
    Source: Joshua Roberts / Reuters

    The old ways of handling U.S. alliances seem to be coming to an end. Donald Trump, fresh off the G7 summit among the world’s preeminent industrialized nations—where what had seemed to be cracks in the relationships among allies were revealed to be chasms—will meet next week with fellow leaders of NATO members in Brussels. Don’t expect happy family photographs.

    In remarks Thursday in Great Falls, Montana, Trump previewed the message he’ll take to the summit: “I’m gonna tell NATO: ‘You gotta start paying your bills. The United States is not gonna take care of everything.’”

    The message itself isn’t new. Trump and his predecessors have repeatedly said

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