“President Trump’s diplomatic embrace of Russia and threats to cut off military aid to Ukraine have caused alarm among European allies that the U.S. may no longer be willing to come to the continent’s defense,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
“But Trump’s posture toward Moscow also seems to be making progress toward a longstanding U.S. goal: jolting Europeans into spending more on their own defense.”
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Taegan Goddard is the founder of Political Wire, one of the earliest and most influential political web sites. He also runs Political Job Hunt, Electoral Vote Map and the Political Dictionary.
Goddard spent more than a decade as managing director and chief operating officer of a prominent investment firm in New York City. Previously, he was a policy adviser to a U.S. Senator and Governor.
Goddard is also co-author of You Won - Now What? (Scribner, 1998), a political management book hailed by prominent journalists and politicians from both parties. In addition, Goddard's essays on politics and public policy have appeared in dozens of newspapers across the country.
Goddard earned degrees from Vassar College and Harvard University. He lives in New York with his wife and three sons.
Goddard is the owner of Goddard Media LLC.