Spain risked Trump’s tariff wrath by rejecting the 5% spending requirement, but it isn’t NATO’s only sceptic.
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Nato leaders will do their best to engage with a US president who appears increasingly hostile towards the alliance.
A recent survey of Canadian international relations experts finds they don’t always agree, but the majority view the U.S. as Canada’s most important region, with the Arctic gaining ground.
The three-day meeting is touted as a time to celebrate the alliance’s 75th anniversary. But gathered leaders face serious questions that will affect NATO’s future.
Donald Trump has threatened to not defend some NATO countries if Russia attacks them. But the US also benefits from the power that NATO gives it, as well as the stability it helped create in Europe.
Leaders of the Western military alliance meet in Lithuania with the ongoing war in Ukraine as a backdrop.
Canadians were shocked by how fragile their health-care system was under the stresses of the COVID-19 pandemic. But our military is under similar stresses and only a major disaster will open our eyes.
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Research Professor of Joint, Interagency, Intergovernmental, and Multinational Security Studies, US Army War College
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Professor of History and International Affairs, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Professor of Defence Studies, Canadian Forces College
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Professor of Practice of Gobal Governance and Development, IE University