Does Donald Trump have a point about NATO being ‘obsolete’?

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When Defense Secretary Ash Carter confers with his fellow NATO defense ministers this week in Brussels, he will likely sense some trepidation among the allies about Donald Trump.

After all, Trump has pronounced the 67-year-old alliance “obsolete” in its current form, and says the U.S. should be willing to walk away from NATO if the other 27 nations don’t chip in more of the costs and do more of the heavy-lifting.

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