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How NATO’s ‘daddy strategy’ conquered Trump

How NATO’s ‘daddy strategy’ conquered Trump

By playing to the president’s ego and rolling out the red carpet, the alliance has strengthened its bonds with its biggest financial backer.

US President Donald Trump and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte at the start of the summit. Getty

It was a reception fit for a king.

The pillows had been fluffed at the Dutch royal palace. King Willem-Alexander had a special guest staying overnight and a key role to play in the careful choreography unfolding in The Hague for the NATO summit, with the singular goal of making sure US President Donald Trump didn’t pull the plug on the world’s biggest military alliance.

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