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The foreign-policy mess Trump is making

Is it fair for Trump to bash NATO over military spending? Alliance against progress: Max B. Sawicky on NATO without tears — or Cold War hysteria. Trump ends NATO summit by announcing a diplomatic breakthrough that did not happen. Trump says there’s a crisis at NATO — he’s right, and the crisis is him. Trump threw NATO into chaos — the U.S.-British “special relationship” is next. Everything you need to know about Trump’s controversial U.K. visit. In wild interview, Trump says May blew Brexit and immigrants ruined Europe (and more). Trump backed Brexit — then he used it as leverage. Trump is a loose cannon and we can’t believe a thing he says. William Davies on Boris Johnson, Donald Trump and the rise of radical incompetence: Like America’s president, Brexiteers resent the very idea of governing as complex and based in facts.

The big winner of the NATO summit? Putin. Will Vlad play the pee-pee tape? Peter Savodnik goes beyond the absurdity of the Trump-Putin summit. Trump and Putin one-on-one is not a good idea — here’s why. Can we just admit that Trump is captured by the Russians? Tom Nichols on what Jonathan Chait gets right about Trump and Russia.

The inevitable death of global trade as we know it: Free-trade proponents accuse Trump of imperiling a decades-old system, but a reckoning was due no matter what. Trump still pretending fake North Korea nuclear deal is real (and more).

There is no cleaning up the foreign-policy mess Trump is making. Paul Campos on the rhinoceros who was elected shortstop.