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Tommy talks with Julianne Smith, a former Pentagon official, and advisor to Vice President Joe Biden, about Donald Trump’s truly awful trip to Europe, and why his terrifying press conference with Vladimir Putin in Helsinki is only a piece of the lasting damage it might cause to some of America’s most critical relationships.

Show Notes:

• Vanity Fair: “For Putin, This is a Real Win”: Russia Experts Predict A Worst Case Scenario For Trump’s Helsinki Summit
• Vanity Fair: “He Chooses The Hammer Every Time”: NATO Left Fuming As Trump Turns Toward Putin
• ABC News: Lawmakers, experts doubt Trump could unilaterally pull US from NATO
• Foreign Affairs: Opinion: NATO in the Age of Trump: What It Can and Can’t Accomplish Absent U.S. Leadership
• Newsweek: Trump Told Macron France Should Consider Leaving the EU: Reports
• Defense One: It’s Time for NATO to Look North
• New York Times: As Summit Nears, NATO Allies Have One Main Worry: Trump
• The Guardian: Marginalised Mattis appears closer to exit as Trump’s defense secretary
• Carnegie Council: Trump’s National Security Strategy, with Julianne Smith
• Pittsburgh Post Gazette: Opinion: ‘Across the Pond, In the Field’: bringing U.S. foreign policy out of the Washington bubble
• Defense & Aerospace Report: Video: CNAS’ Smith on Future of US-Russia Relations
• McCain Institute: Video: Should the United States be the World’s Policeman?
• Defense One: America’s Allies Want More From the US