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Trump didn’t wreck NATO — he just exposed its anti-US hypocrisy

NATO members are not legally required to join another member’s military operation that isn’t formally sanctioned by the alliance or aimed at protecting the membership’s homelands.

But they often do just that.

Some NATO members joined the United States in Afghanistan and Iraq, on the theory that the Taliban and Saddam Hussein were dangers to all Western security in the post-9/11 environment.

They followed the precedent set by America’s 1999 intervention in the distant Balkans, when it led a three-month NATO campaign to dismantle Slobodan Milosevic’s often bloody ambition to establish a Greater Serbia.

The US also joined the 2011 UN-approved, French- and British-inspired “coalition of the willing” bombing campaign in Libya.

That effort proved a seven-month misadventure — especially since the targeted Libyan strongman Moammar Khadafy had given up his nuclear weapons program and was desperately trying to cut a deal with the West.

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When NATO members in the past have operated unilaterally to defend their own national interests, they have often called on the United States, as NATO’s strongest member, for overt help.

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