President Donald Trump faces a gargantuan task as he tries to realign U.S. foreign policy with actual American interests. But this week has already brought major victories.
On Wednesday at the NATO Summit in The Hague, Netherlands, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte pledged changes to an alliance in which the Unites States has spent decades bearing a disproportionate share of the responsibility.
“For too long,” Rutte said, “one ally — the United States — carried too much of the burden of that commitment. And that changes today.”
In the presence of Trump and other NATO nations’ leaders, Rutte spoke of equalizing financial commitments to the alliance.
“To make NATO stronger,” the secretary general said, “we have a concrete plan for all allies to spend 5
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