that basically the costs of america s world role are far greater than the benefits. and it s as if he were running a business, it s as if he was only being looking at the cost side of the ledger r, he s never looking at the revenue side. you have any concern about the stability of nato? absolutely. comes out in the anoun nnymous . we ve had more sustained fight with our allies than anybody. the president does a cost/benefit analysis. i m a little concomfortabuncomf talking about it. but if you re someone like vladimir putin, why do you do what he s doing against a country, does he know for sure how donald trump and nato would react? would we institute so-called article 5, the commitment of collective defense? and more broadly, again, things are beginning to unravel in