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fridiNo photos, please! It's rare that a British PM would play hide and seek with a US president. They're supposed to be attesting to their "special relationship", right? But BoJo stood at a choice. He knew his buddy Donnie who was in the UK for the NATO summit is not very liked by the British public. But Donnie was untypically forgiving while his erratic host was running to and fro' to avoid the cameras.
This very much resembles NATO's situation as of now. On its 70th jubilee, the alliance could've worked a bit on its vision of the future. The initial intention (to keep the Americans in, the Soviets out, the Germans down) could've been updated. Instead, the whole event became a diplomatic damage control effort. Atlantism is said to be in crisis, stuck between the whimsical America and the parsimonious Europeans. The Trump/Macron quarrel also didn't help give an impression of an alliance that's working forward.
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This very much resembles NATO's situation as of now. On its 70th jubilee, the alliance could've worked a bit on its vision of the future. The initial intention (to keep the Americans in, the Soviets out, the Germans down) could've been updated. Instead, the whole event became a diplomatic damage control effort. Atlantism is said to be in crisis, stuck between the whimsical America and the parsimonious Europeans. The Trump/Macron quarrel also didn't help give an impression of an alliance that's working forward.
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