NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte is heading to Washington next week to meet President Trump, and the timing says it all. Trump has been hammering so-called allies for years over their pathetic failure to pull their weight in defense while America foots the bill. Rutte knows the game is up. In a blunt January speech to the European Parliament, he shredded the fantasy of a self-reliant Europe:“If anyone thinks the European Union or Europe can defend itself without the US, keep on dreaming! You can’t! We can’t!”He went even harder on the dreamers pushing “strategic autonomy”: “If you really want...
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