NATO and EU wonder which Trump will turn up
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Hoping for the best, fearing the worst: EU and NATO leaders are braced for their first meeting with US President Donald Trump on their home turf on Thursday.
The trepidation in Brussels, a city Trump once dubbed a dangerous “hellhole,” is palpable as he has up-ended one long-held certainty about US ties after another.
On the campaign trail Trump dubbed NATO — the US-led alliance credited with keeping the peace in Europe for the past 70 years — “obsolete” and unsuited to tackling the real threat of Islamist terror, while he has since accused allies of not paying their way.
As for Europe, he backed Britain’s shock Brexit vote, saying the European Union was a would-be superstate doomed to collapse under the weight of its own contradictions.
The president has since row...