In this fourth part of his conversation with Jacob Heilbrunn, Richard Sanders, Former Senior Foreign Service Officer at the State Department, looks ahead to Trump’s expected trip to Ankara after the July 4th celebrations for a major NATO summit hosted by Turkey.
For Sanders, such summits are never merely diplomatic rituals. With Trump, they often carry “an element of damage control,” especially when personal chemistry, regional rivalries and hard power politics collide.
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