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    Biden Can’t Paper Over the West’s Disunity

    The U.S. and Europe tout a revitalized alliance, but the president’s visit to Brussels masks deeper disagreements.
    by Tom McTague Mar 24, 2022 5 minutes
    Source: Getty / The Atlantic

    As Joe Biden meets with European counterparts in Brussels today, the leader of an ostensibly reunited free world, it is worth recalling another NATO summit just five years ago, held under very different circumstances, with a very different U.S. president.

    In 2017, ahead of talks with Vladimir Putin in Helsinki, Donald Trump arrived in the Belgian capital. He was on the rampage over European free riding, German double-dealing, and European Union tariffs on American companies, at one point getting his national security adviser, John Bolton, on the line. “Are you ready to play in the big leagues today?” Trump asked. The president said he would threaten to leave NATO unless every country in the alliance committed to spending 2 percent of its GDP on defense and Germany scrapped a pipeline deal with Moscow.

    In Trump’s mind, the United States.

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