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NATO summit toasts 70 years, But is it waving or drowning?

US President Donald Trump and first lady Melania (obscured) arrive at Stansted Airport, ahead of the NATO summit, in Stansted, Britain December 2, 2019. [Reuters]

There will be plenty of applause when NATO leaders gather in London to celebrate seven decades of the most successful military alliance in history.

But with a French president who calls it “brain dead”, a Turkish leader who is attacking U.S. allies and buying Russian weapons, and an American president who questions the entire premise of his superpower defending the West — the political future of NATO has rarely if ever seemed quite so dubious.

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