NATO's global peace is unraveling, and we can't stop it - The Washington Post
by Robert Kagan [Robert Kagan is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and a contributing columnist for The Washington Post. He is the author of the forthcoming book “The Jungle Grows Back: America and Our Imperiled World.”]
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even Trump must know the likely response in Europe. The insults and humiliations he inflicted on allied leaders will not be forgotten or forgiven. They will make it impossible for European leaders to win public support for the spending Trump disingenuously claims to want. What German leader after such a tongue-lashing could do Trump’s bidding and hope to survive politically?
Any student of history knows that it is moments like this summit that set in motion chains of events that are difficult to stop. The democratic alliance that has been the bedrock of the American-led liberal world order is unraveling. At some point, and probably sooner than we expect, the global peace that that alliance and that order undergirded will unravel, too. Despite our human desire to hope for the best, things will not be okay. The world crisis is upon us.
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