Europe Deserves Its Humiliation

It must spend more for its own defense, as American leaders have warned for years.

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A Polish Army soldier sits in a tank as a NATO flag flies behind during the NATO Noble Jump military exercises of the Very High Readiness Joint Task Force in Zagan, Poland, June 18, 2015.

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Europe has been warned, and warned again.

Still, it has been reduced to a near-fainting fit — and, in the case of one German official, actual tears — over the Trump administration’s tough words about its deficient military spending and its moves to begin negotiating on its own with Russia over the Ukraine war.

Rich Lowry

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Rich Lowry

Rich Lowry is the editor in chief of National Review.

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