Has Trump awoken the sleeping EU defence beast?

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The nature of Nato spending commitments is not as Donald Trump seems to imagine. Photograph: Julia Nikhinson/AFP via Getty Images It may not be something one thinks about daily, but the United States has nuclear weapons scattered around Europe: in Belgium, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Turkey, a legacy of the Cold War. This is at the heart of what is sometimes referred to as the Nato “security blanket” over Europe. Brussels is now considering whether that blanket is about to be pulled off. In a rally in South Carolina, presidential hopeful Donald Trump told the crowd that not only...