NATO leaders will get a dose of regal hospitality at a Buckingham Palace reception with Queen Elizabeth II on Tuesday evening. And defense spending figures have been calculated to emphasize Trump’s influence in getting allies to share the burden. “But European allies and Canada should not invest in defense to please President Trump. ADPolitically, though, NATO is in a tight spot, with both Trump and Macron taking aim at some of the alliance’s core values. AD“This summit is going to be different in the sense that there are at least two, possibly three disrupters converging on a quiet shire somewhere outside London: President Trump, President Erdogan and President Macron,” said Tomas Valasek, a former Slovakian ambassador to NATO.

Source: Washington Post December 02, 2019 18:22 UTC