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Erdogan and Trump at the NATO Summit: Another Display of Solidarity
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CSIS
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Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan's trip to London for the NATO Leaders Meeting on December 3-4 produced mixed results. While he could not have been happy with the lack of a clear response to his demand for support from allies for Turkey's fight against the Syrian Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) and the related effort to resettle Syrian refugees in Turkey in northeastern Syria, he was surely gratified by the opportunity for yet another display of his close relationship with U.S. president Donald Trump.
Editor's Note:
This week's Disney+ launch also comes after director Martin Scorcese shook the film world with his statements on art versus "audiovisual experiences" last week. Here critic Richard Brody looks at the controversy in light of the landscape of cinema and streaming.
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What South Korea, Japan, and Germany Think of American Troop Demands
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Stratfor
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U.S. demands for huge payment increases from three of its major allies, South Korea, Japan and Germany, for basing military forces on their territory could cause significant shifts in the global U.S. military footprint. The centrality of the United States and its military to South Korea's and Japan's security strategies means Washington is in a strong position to extract more money. But the effort could push Germany further away from the United States.
Editor's Note:
This week's Disney+ launch also comes after director Martin Scorcese shook the film world with his statements on art versus "audiovisual experiences" last week. Here critic Richard Brody looks at the controversy in light of the landscape of cinema and streaming.
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Trump Is Running Out of Time for a Meaningful Diplomatic Deal -- Anywhere
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The New Yorker
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Donald Trump meets with twenty-eight of America's closest allies this week, for a NATO summit in London, with less leverage than he's had at any time in his Presidency. Trump is floundering as much globally as he is at home -- and they all know it. His foreign policies -- from North Korea and the Middle East to Venezuela -- have, so far, largely flopped. Even in areas where allies support U.S. goals, many view the President as tactically reckless, rhetorically vulgar, and chronically disorganized in day-to-day diplomacy. In July, the media in London quoted cables from the British Ambassador in Washington in which he called Trump "insecure," "incompetent," and "inept," and the White House "uniquely dysfunctional."
Editor's Note:
This week's Disney+ launch also comes after director Martin Scorcese shook the film world with his statements on art versus "audiovisual experiences" last week. Here critic Richard Brody looks at the controversy in light of the landscape of cinema and streaming.
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What security minds think about NATO's past and future
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Euractiv
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As NATO leaders gather for what is set to be an ill-tempered working session on Wednesday (4 December), EURACTIV.com asked EU and NATO stakeholders to assess challenges ahead and the future of the Alliance.
Editor's Note:
This week's Disney+ launch also comes after director Martin Scorcese shook the film world with his statements on art versus "audiovisual experiences" last week. Here critic Richard Brody looks at the controversy in light of the landscape of cinema and streaming.
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Nato turns 70: the biggest threats facing the alliance
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The Week
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Boris Johnson will call for Nato unity today as international leaders gather in London for a summit marking the 70th birthday of the trans-Atlantic military alliance.
Editor's Note:
This week's Disney+ launch also comes after director Martin Scorcese shook the film world with his statements on art versus "audiovisual experiences" last week. Here critic Richard Brody looks at the controversy in light of the landscape of cinema and streaming.
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US to Europe: Fix Open Skies Treaty or we quit
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Defense News
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NATO allies worried U.S. President Donald Trump will abandon the Open Skies Treaty have been told the administration views the arms control agreement as a danger to U.S. national security, and that unless those nations can assuage such concerns, the U.S. will likely pull out, Defense News has learned.
Editor's Note:
This week's Disney+ launch also comes after director Martin Scorcese shook the film world with his statements on art versus "audiovisual experiences" last week. Here critic Richard Brody looks at the controversy in light of the landscape of cinema and streaming.
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How Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky Is Navigating His Role in the World's Biggest Political Drama
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Time
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The host of the summit, French President Emmanuel Macron, made some remarks in November that worried the Ukrainians. Russia is no longer an enemy of NATO, Macron said, and should be treated as a partner. In an interview with the Economist, the French leader also suggested that the NATO military alliance, which has guaranteed the security of Europe since the end of World War II, was “experiencing brain death” and may no longer be willing to defend its member states from an attack.
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One of the pressing issues on NATO's agenda has been Ukraine, which has made joining the alliance a priority after conflict with Russia. Here Simon Shuster looks at Volodymyr Zelensky, who is at the center of a new peace effort in Ukraine (as well as the U.S. impeachment inquiry).
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Very, very nasty': Trump unexpectedly attacks French president at NATO summit
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LA Times
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US President Donald Trump unexpectedly launched a verbal assault at the United States' oldest ally Tuesday, slamming French President Emmanuel Macron's warnings about the decline of the NATO military alliance as "insulting," "very, very nasty" and "very disrespectful."
Editor's Note:
This week's Disney+ launch also comes after director Martin Scorcese shook the film world with his statements on art versus "audiovisual experiences" last week. Here critic Richard Brody looks at the controversy in light of the landscape of cinema and streaming.
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NATO's birthday overshadowed by top-level feuding
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AFP
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Despite an angry response from many allies, the French leader stood by his comments after talks with Stoltenberg in Paris, saying "a wake-up call was necessary".
Editor's Note:
This week's Disney+ launch also comes after director Martin Scorcese shook the film world with his statements on art versus "audiovisual experiences" last week. Here critic Richard Brody looks at the controversy in light of the landscape of cinema and streaming.
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Trump, Macron hold tense meeting: 'Would you like some nice ISIS
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The Hill
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French President Emmanuel Macron held a tense meeting Tuesday on the sidelines of a NATO summit, with Trump at one point telling the French leader he could send him some "ISIS fighters" if he wanted them.
Editor's Note:
This week's Disney+ launch also comes after director Martin Scorcese shook the film world with his statements on art versus "audiovisual experiences" last week. Here critic Richard Brody looks at the controversy in light of the landscape of cinema and streaming.
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Political scientist Ahmet Murat Aytaç: Erdoğan will use the NATO summit to prolong his own rule
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Evrensel
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Political scientist Ahmet Murat Aytaç said that at the NATO summit President Erdoğan "will exploit to the utmost such advantages as Turkey being the second largest army in NATO and being a Muslim country and watching over Europe's borders in the Middle East to prolong his own rule."
Editor's Note:
This week's Disney+ launch also comes after director Martin Scorcese shook the film world with his statements on art versus "audiovisual experiences" last week. Here critic Richard Brody looks at the controversy in light of the landscape of cinema and streaming.
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Turkey threatens to block NATO plan on summit eve
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Reuters
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Turkey will oppose a NATO plan to defend Baltic countries unless the alliance backs it in recognizing a Kurdish militia as a terrorist group, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday ahead of an alliance summit in London.
Editor's Note:
This week's Disney+ launch also comes after director Martin Scorcese shook the film world with his statements on art versus "audiovisual experiences" last week. Here critic Richard Brody looks at the controversy in light of the landscape of cinema and streaming.
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A practical guide for NATO members to understand Turkey
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Anadolu Agency
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Amidst a whole host of daunting tasks, allied leaders should have more important things to worry about than Turkey's military action in northern Syria, or the fate of the non-state armed groups affiliated with the terrorist PKK
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One of the topics that got overshadowed in many traditional media outlets by the personal conflicts was the major military action taken by a NATO member, Turkey. The article a few links above from Evrensel looks at the question from the Turkish opposition, though here Dr. Can Kasapoğlu writes for Anadolou Agency supporting the government position.
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Leaders learn the hard way that Trump will be Trump at NATO meeting
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CNN
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At the outset of NATO's 70th anniversary meeting, which was meant to promote the unity of the alliance, no one doubted President Donald Trump's ability to disrupt, and he didn't disappoint, taking his tactics to a new level.
Editor's Note:
This week's Disney+ launch also comes after director Martin Scorcese shook the film world with his statements on art versus "audiovisual experiences" last week. Here critic Richard Brody looks at the controversy in light of the landscape of cinema and streaming.
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Fact check: Trump makes at least 21 false claims at NATO meetings
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CNN
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President Donald Trump held official meetings with two foreign leaders and the head of NATO at the alliance summit in London on Tuesday -- and turned the public portion of each of the three sessions into his own highly dishonest impromptu press conference
Editor's Note:
This week's Disney+ launch also comes after director Martin Scorcese shook the film world with his statements on art versus "audiovisual experiences" last week. Here critic Richard Brody looks at the controversy in light of the landscape of cinema and streaming.
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For Johnson, a Perilous Week Ahead, With the Politics of Terror and Trump
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The New York Times
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Mr. Johnson, experts said, could play a statesman’s role at the NATO meeting, since he is not as divisive a figure as Mr. Trump or two other leaders: President Emmanuel Macron of France, who recently referred to the alliance as being in state of “brain death,” and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey, who antagonized NATO members by sending troops into Syria and buying an advanced air defense system from Russia.
Editor's Note:
This week's Disney+ launch also comes after director Martin Scorcese shook the film world with his statements on art versus "audiovisual experiences" last week. Here critic Richard Brody looks at the controversy in light of the landscape of cinema and streaming.
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Don't be fooled: Russia is still NATO's greatest challenge - Atlantic Council
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Atlantic Council
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Seventy years after NATO’s birth, the Alliance is still confronting an existential threat to its east, several defense and foreign affairs ministers said on December 3. Although French President Emmanuel Macron has made waves by suggesting that terrorism, not Russia, was the biggest threat facing NATO today, the defense ministers from Estonia and Lithuania were clear that they still see Moscow as their biggest challenge.
Editor's Note:
This week's Disney+ launch also comes after director Martin Scorcese shook the film world with his statements on art versus "audiovisual experiences" last week. Here critic Richard Brody looks at the controversy in light of the landscape of cinema and streaming.
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Now playing in London: The Donald and Emmanuel Show
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Politico
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It was a verbal version of their infamous handshake wrestle: Donald Trump and Emmanuel Macron locked in an epic blab-fest -- more than 40 minutes of mansplaining, rhetorical jousting, glares, glowers, shrugs, smirks and smiles.
Editor's Note:
This week's Disney+ launch also comes after director Martin Scorcese shook the film world with his statements on art versus "audiovisual experiences" last week. Here critic Richard Brody looks at the controversy in light of the landscape of cinema and streaming.
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France's Macron remains isolated in NATO as leaders bash his comments
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Daily Sabah
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French President Emmanuel Macron's recent remarks on NATO that criticized the organization for its collective defense seem to have backfired as world leaders and diplomats expressed disappointment, leaving the French president alone with his thoughts.
Editor's Note:
This week's Disney+ launch also comes after director Martin Scorcese shook the film world with his statements on art versus "audiovisual experiences" last week. Here critic Richard Brody looks at the controversy in light of the landscape of cinema and streaming.
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It's Not Just Trump. The American People Are Skeptical of NATO, Too.
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Politico
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But as the heads of NATO member countries gather this week in London, some of that popular support is in jeopardy. This is one of the conclusions of a national survey that my colleagues and I at the Eurasia Group Foundation recently conducted. For a second year in a row, when faced with a hypothetical scenario in which Russia invaded Estonia, a NATO ally, Americans were roughly split on whether they wanted the United States to respond militarily. And that was after respondents were reminded of Article 5, the part of the NATO treaty that obligates the United States to respond to such aggression, and after they were told that U.S. action could be the only way to expel Russia.
Editor's Note:
This week's Disney+ launch also comes after director Martin Scorcese shook the film world with his statements on art versus "audiovisual experiences" last week. Here critic Richard Brody looks at the controversy in light of the landscape of cinema and streaming.
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Why Nato is still essential for peace
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New Statesman
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There is nothing like the threat of nuclear Armageddon for focusing minds. That, at least, was true for Nato over the decades from its foundation in 1949. During the Cold War the alliance had a common purpose (collective defence), a common space (the North Atlantic) and a common adversary (the Soviet bloc).
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The NATO summit took place after French President Emmanuel Macron called the alliance "braindead" weeks before. This has brought reaction of some saying it is worth defending. Here Jeremy Cliffe, on the European side of the Atlantic and the left-leaning side of the media spectrum, expresses his position in the New Statesman.
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NATO's Trump Whisperer
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The Atlantic
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Jens Stoltenberg will soon be the alliance's longest-serving leader in a generation. How has he done it?
Editor's Note:
This week's Disney+ launch also comes after director Martin Scorcese shook the film world with his statements on art versus "audiovisual experiences" last week. Here critic Richard Brody looks at the controversy in light of the landscape of cinema and streaming.
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Who Needs NATO?
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The Daily Beast
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Just at the moment members of the House of Representatives were closing in on Richard Nixon like hounds in pursuit of a fox, he decided to run for cover in Europe. That summer of 1974, as he faced possible impeachment, Nixon wanted to remind the world and his countrymen that he was a true -- maybe indispensable -- statesman. And with the advice and consent of Henry Kissinger, he did that fairly well. Among his goals on that trip: to reassure Europe about America's commitment to the North Atlantic Alliance.
Editor's Note:
This week's Disney+ launch also comes after director Martin Scorcese shook the film world with his statements on art versus "audiovisual experiences" last week. Here critic Richard Brody looks at the controversy in light of the landscape of cinema and streaming.
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What are you at?' Donald Trump presses Trudeau over Canada's NATO defence spending
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National Post
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U.S. President Donald Trump put Justin Trudeau on the spot Tuesday over Canada's NATO defence spending.
Editor's Note:
This week's Disney+ launch also comes after director Martin Scorcese shook the film world with his statements on art versus "audiovisual experiences" last week. Here critic Richard Brody looks at the controversy in light of the landscape of cinema and streaming.
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Despite Acrimony Among Leaders, NATO Is Making Strides at 70
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Foreign Policy
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Trump's bullying prompted NATO Chief Stoltenberg to praise the U.S. president for his "leadership on defense spending," and the alliance is bolstering itself against Russia.
Editor's Note:
This week's Disney+ launch also comes after director Martin Scorcese shook the film world with his statements on art versus "audiovisual experiences" last week. Here critic Richard Brody looks at the controversy in light of the landscape of cinema and streaming.
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