Cosmopolitics by Elise Labott

Cosmopolitics by Elise Labott

NATO Isn’t Ending. The Pretense Is.

Washington remains indispensable. It just won't be the only one steering the alliance.

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Elise Labott
Jul 08, 2026
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NATO turns 77 this year, and the coverage out of Ankara reads like another obituary in progress: Trump doesn’t believe in the alliance, Europe can’t defend itself, the whole arrangement is coming apart. This genre shows up every few years, usually around a spending fight, and it’s usually wrong.

It’s wrong this time too, but not for the reason the optimi…

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