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Radio Scotland,12 mins

NATO without America?

Good Morning Scotland

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Should NATO be bracing itself to lose its most powerful member? Donald Trump’s teeth rattling rebuke to NATO members at the Brussels summit last week was ostensibly about their failure, in his eyes, to pay enough into the communal defence fund. However, analysts believe that the spat presages a more fundamental pulling away by America from the multilateral organisation further down line. Could NATO live without its most important member?

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