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Rubio鈥檚 peacemaking mission to Rome
Linda Feldmann
Secretary of State Marco Rubio鈥檚 trip to Rome this week has a dual purpose: mend fences with both Pope Leo XIV and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni. President Donald Trump鈥檚 clash with the pope over the Iran war has dominated headlines. But the fraying of relations with Prime Minister Meloni has also been consequential, amid a transatlantic rift over NATO.
As Anna Mulrine Grobe writes from Brussels in a piece today on U.S.-NATO relations, Mr. Trump鈥檚 treatment of the alliance as 鈥渓argely expendable鈥� is sparking resolve among some members that a 鈥淓uropean approach to military matters may not be such a bad thing.鈥�
