Could NATO survive without America?

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NATO and Europe

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Throughout the Alliance's history your had tensions between members like Greece and Turkey, you've had tensions over the Iraq war, but what is new and different, both in the first Trump administration and now, is that it's the Alliance's biggest, most powerful and most influential ally that is disrupting the pace and unanimity in the Alliance...the attacks and the angry words...I think says more about the pressure that President Trump is facing at home to end the Iran war, to bring the economy back in track and to deliver results as he promised....I think it says more about the US president than it does about the state of the Alliance."