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Home / NATO / Trump didn’t quit NATO, but a potential second term alarms allies
NATO, Burden sharing, Europe and Eurasia, Grand strategy

February 19, 2024

Trump didn’t quit NATO, but a potential second term alarms allies

“That kind of rhetoric coming from Trump as the former and potentially future president is kind of poisonous for the general restraint worldview that people like me espouse,” said Ben Friedman, policy director of Defense Priorities, a foreign policy group backed by billionaire Charles Koch.

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