Memo to Trump: NATO is a bargain

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Donald Trump’s property company doesn’t own any real estate in continental Europe, which might explain why the former president seems to consider it a backwater. But Trump’s willingness to abandon Europe, should Russia become even more hostile or territorial, is penny-wise foolishness mislabeled as self-interest. Trump set off fresh alarm bells in Washington and European capitals with his latest rant about the NATO military alliance and an apparent green light to Russian expansionism. At a South Carolina rally on Feb. 10, the leading Republican presidential candidate said that if Russia attacked a NATO member country that didn’t meet the NATO...