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Europe casts wary eye as Americans debate engagement with world

When Donald Trump recently suggested he would encourage Russia to attack financially “delinquent” U.S. allies in Europe if he returned to the White House, President Joe Biden reacted strongly. “It’s un-American!” he fumed.

But is it really?

That’s the question haunting Washington’s European partners who are joining U.S. representatives at a trio of security meetings in Brussels and Munich this week.

The reason: They’re aware that the U.S. creation and leadership of NATO since World War II represents just one distinctly American vision of engagement with the world. During other stretches of its

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