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Ban NATO summits

16. července 2018  9:54
After watching this NATO summit unfold here in Brussels, we think it’s worth considering whether this should be the last one for a while. That’s not because the substance was disappointing. Far from it. As numerous European ministers and NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg stressed, the policy decisions formalized here were as impressive as any summit in recent memory. The United States and its European allies agreed to improve their military capabilities, do more in Iraq and across Europe’s southern border, and augment NATO’s ability to make decisions in a crisis. They invited a new member to join. They also reaffirmed their common stance against Russia and commitment to collective self-defense.But it is impossible to ignore that leaders — as well as the hundreds of NATO wonks and journalists gathered on the summit’s margins — spent two days engulfed in an unnecessary drama created, scripted, and produced by the U.S. president. While ministers and experts tried to keep the focus on the summit’s impressive deliverables, all anyone wanted to talk about was Donald Trump.  

Severoatlantická aliance. Ilustrační foto. | foto: NATO Photos

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