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NATO seeks reset for post-Trump era
Andrew Hammond
Donald Trump with fellow NATO leaders, Brussels, Belgium, May 25, 2017. (Reuters)
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Western leaders, including US President Joe Biden, are making final preparations for this month’s face-to-face NATO leadership summit in Brussels, which will see a reset after the military alliance came under the greatest strain in its history during Donald Trump’s presidency.
Former US officials, including ex-National Security Adviser John Bolton, have confirmed that Trump came close to announcing America’s withdrawal from the organization, which was co-created by Washington in the postwar era. This would have been a body blow to its credibility. The nadir came in the extraordinary scenes of 2018, when, with Trump throwing the alliance’s annual summit into disarray by threatening to pull America out, there were a series of cancelations of key announcements.