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The Trump campaign refused Thursday to address Donald Trump’s position that the U.S. should not immediately defend NATO allies under attack.
“I’m not going to get in to a foreign policy speech today,” Paul Manafort told reporters Thursday, repeating Trump’s months-long position that “NATO must be modernized.”
Trump told the New York Times Wednesday that NATO allies, including Baltic states facing Russian aggression, should not be defended unless they “fulfill their obligations.”
“We have many NATO members that aren’t paying their bills,” Trump said. NATO members are obligated by treaty to consider an attack on one ally as an attack against all allies.
The businessman has in the past criticized the alliance as “obsolete.”
