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As Summit Nears, NATO Allies Have One Main Worry: Trump

| June 26, 2018

By Steven Erlanger

NATO has been preparing for its July summit meeting for a year now, but there is one wild card: President Trump.

Nobody knows which president will show up — the truculent one railing about inadequate military spending by the allies or the boastful one taking credit for recent spending increases.

Either way, NATO members say they fear that all the preparation and the desire to show solidarity in the face of a new Russian threat will be overshadowed, if not undone, by a divisive encounter followed by Mr. Trump’s prospective summit meeting with the Russian president, Vladimir V. Putin.

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Nicholas Burns

Nicholas Burns

  • Roy and Barbara Goodman Family Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy and International Relations, Harvard Kennedy School
  • Member of the Board, Belfer Center
  • Faculty Chair, Future of Diplomacy Project
  • Faculty Chair, Project on Europe and the Transatlantic Relationship
  • Faculty Affiliate, Middle East Initiative
  • Director, American Secretaries of State Project
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