Trump and other populists will haunt NATO’s 75th birthday party
Threats to Western alliances lie both within and without the club
Editor’s note (July 8th): After this article was published Sir Keir Starmer was elected as prime minister in Britain, and Marine Le Pen’s hard-right National Rally failed to become the largest party in France’s National Assembly.
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