The United States needs Europe and NATO, despite Trump’s onslaught

The world is beginning to lose count of the times Donald Trump has threatened in recent days to abandon NATO and leave his European allies in the lurch for refusing to follow him in his poorly planned military adventure in Iran. This is especially true because they have restricted the use of military bases on European soil — not only Spain, but also France, the United Kingdom, and even Italy have placed limits or conditions on the use of these facilities or prohibited military aircraft from flying over their airspace en route to the Middle East — for a war about which they weren’t even warned. The U.S. president’s threats have been so numerous that his French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron, warned him this week: “If the commitment is questioned every day, it loses its meaning.”

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