Pipes' article fits well with President Trump's challenge to NATO members to increase their defense budgets to 2% of GDP or "else". The Trump policy is not the US withdrawing from the world, it is the US demanding that others not be free riders on US defense expenditures, or in Pipes' framing, not be "immature".
But I'm sure Pipes would have felt more optimistic if Trump had chosen for VP Senator Cotton instead of Senator Vance.
I wish that what Daniel Pipes writes is true. But I reminded of what Henry Kissinger said about the calls for consultation with our European allies: You call Europe. The phone rings 20 times, and a Dane answers.
Pipes' article fits well with President Trump's challenge to NATO members to increase their defense budgets to 2% of GDP or "else". The Trump policy is not the US withdrawing from the world, it is the US demanding that others not be free riders on US defense expenditures, or in Pipes' framing, not be "immature".
But I'm sure Pipes would have felt more optimistic if Trump had chosen for VP Senator Cotton instead of Senator Vance.
I wish that what Daniel Pipes writes is true. But I reminded of what Henry Kissinger said about the calls for consultation with our European allies: You call Europe. The phone rings 20 times, and a Dane answers.