英文早点丨0719 - 美媒称：特朗普对北约的“蔑视”将帮助到普京

北大西洋公约组织，简称北约组织或北约或音译为那图，是美利坚合众国与西欧、北美主要发达国家为实现防卫协作而建立的一个国际军事集团组织。北约拥有大量核武器和常规部队，是西方的重要军事力量。这是二战后西方阵营军事上实现战略同盟的标志，是马歇尔计划在军事领域的延伸和发展，使美国得以控制以德国和法国为首的欧盟的防务体系，是美国世界超级大国领导地位的标志。

Histories make men wise;poems witty;the mathematics subtle;natural philosophy deep;moral grave;logic and rhetoric able to contend.----Bacon

The big takeaway of the so far bad-tempered NATO summit is that President Donald Trump has little time for the alliance and a thin appreciation of the track record and historic purpose of an organization that has kept the peace and preserved Western democracy since World War II.

With such attacks, Trump also often appears to be doing Russian President Vladimir Putin's work for him, by opening divisions in the transatlantic alliance and berating NATO partners.

文本选自 ：CNN(美国有线新闻网)

作者 ：Stephen Collinson

原文标题 ：How Trump's disdain for NATO could help Putin

原文发布时间 ：12 July 2018

summit

英 [ˈsʌmɪt]       美 [ˈsʌmɪt]

• n. 顶点;高层会议;最高阶层

• adj. 最高级的;政府首脑的

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