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A Primer to the Brussels NATO Summit /

23 May 2017

A Primer to the Brussels NATO Summit Page 1 by Colin Robertson May, 2017 A Primer to the Brussels NATO Summit P residents and prime ministers will meet in Brussels on Wednesday and Thursday (May 24-5, 2017) in a summit meeting of the 28 partner nations. [...] The conference takes place against a complicated backdrop; upcoming elections in the United Kingdom and Germany, the recent elections in France and the Netherlands, the Brexit negotiations, the ongoing campaign against ISIS, turmoil in Syria, questions about Afghanistan, the continuing migration from the Middle East and North Africa, the latest Greek bailout, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan [...] NATO leaders usually meet in the aftermath of the election of a new American president, as it is the U. S. that provides the muscle for the organization. [...] Trump’s message that the Allies need to pay their “fair share…That pledge has gone unfulfilled for too many for too long and erodes the very foundation of our alliance.” The U. S. effort leading to the Brussels summit was handicapped by the lack of senior personnel in the U. S. Administration. [...] The American argument is expressed well in the valedictory remarks to NATO (June 10, 2011), of former U. S. defense secretary Robert Gates, who warned, “The blunt reality is that there will be dwindling appetite and patience in the U. S. Congress — and in the American body politic writ large — to expend increasingly precious funds on behalf of nations that are apparently unwilling A Primer to the
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