The Atlantic Daily: Trump vs. NATO, ISIS Arrests in Rio, Twitter's Hate Problem
What We’re Following NATO Bonds: In an interview with the New York Times, Republican nominee Donald Trump implied that if elected president, he would refuse to defend U.S. allies that do not meet their financial obligations to NATO. It’s a condition that would disqualify 23 of the treaty’s 28 member states from U.S. military support, and—argues Jeffrey Goldberg—one that effectively makes Trump an agent of Russian dictator Vladimir Putin.
