Is NATO Trump’s next target?

THE PREFERRED TERM FOR THE 29 COUNTRIES of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization is not members or signatories but allies. Yet as a July 11–12 NATO summit approaches, 28 of those nations’ leaders would be forgiven for questioning whether that word still applies to the leader of the 29th.

In the space of two weeks in June, U.S. President Donald Trump baited the E.U. and Canada into a trade war; argued that Russian President Vladimir Putin—still under E.U. and U.S. sanctions for the annexation of Crimea—should