Here’s Why Americans Should Care About the NATO Summit
When most Americans see the “Vilnius, Lithuania” dateline on stories about the upcoming NATO summit they will likely scroll past the story or turn the page. The location will sound so distant to them; it is a place they could never find on a map.
In fact, it is one that will sound to many like it is not even from this century, one of those remote, tongue-twister spots from some dusty history book that never seemed too relevant to the people of the world’s richest and most powerful nation.
Further, what could be less relevant to the lives of Main Street America than a NATO summit? Diplomatic talks about budgets and issues that by design seemed so far away?