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The President’s threats to leave the alliance have spurred more defense spending, troop deployments, and other military preparations by European nations, particularly after Russia’s Ukraine invasion. Joshua Yaffa reports.
Joshua Yaffa
Joshua Yaffa is a contributing writer at The New Yorker and the author of “ Between Two Fires: Truth, Ambition, and Compromise in Putin’s Russia ,” which won the Orwell Prize in 2021. He is currently the inaugural writer-in-residence at Bard College Berlin.
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