Canada’s Afghanistan failure
Stephen Maher: There are ways Canada can help around the world. But we should recognize that we do not make good occupying soldiers and stop trying to do it.
NATO
A NATO ally is hurtling toward crisis. Should we care?
Adnan R. Khan: After its flirtations with Russia, Turkey now faces a foreign policy disaster in Syria. Can anything be done to save it?
Macron’s slap-down of Trump says much about the state of world politics
Image of the Week: ’Let’s be serious,’ the French president told his U.S. counterpart, while keeping a straight face
Donald Trump is wrong about NATO
Opinion: Despite Trump’s rhetoric, relative defence spending is falling for many NATO member countries, including America—and collective defence is cheaper than other options
NATO will endure, with or without the United States
Opinion: The U.S. has been scaling back from Europe since before Donald Trump became president—and NATO has been preparing well for that inevitability
Time for a moratorium on summits: The Trump Pause?
Scott Gilmore: The U.S. president is the badly behaved guest at the international table. As long as he’s around, nothing will get done.
What Justin Trudeau had to say at the NATO summit
At an unscripted question-and-answer session, the PM opened up on his view of Canada in the world, from defence spending to populist nationalism
Trump trashing NATO isn’t important—what the alliance does next is
Scott Gilmore: Washington has dropped the ball, but Canada and the EU is capable of picking it up and making this summit a milestone in history
Why Turkey, not Trump, is the NATO wildcard
Adnan R. Khan: Ignore Trump and his theatrics. The real issue when NATO meets will be Turkey and its dangerous drift into Russia’s orbit.
Trump-Putin: A summit in one act
Paul Wells: What will the Russian leader say privately to the U.S. president? Perhaps something about a little problem they have called NATO.