With tough medicine, NATO needs some sugar from Trump

At a critical moment, president Donald Trump addressed the leaders of America’s NATO allies in Brussels, Belgium. Returning to a central point of his foreign policy doctrine, Trump demanded that the rest of the alliance shoulder considerably more of its budgetary burden relative to the United States.
He was right to do so, although not, he made it appear, for the correct reasons. It’s essential that NATO’s member states meet — and exceed — their current spending obl