Richard Haass: Trump’s Top General Contradicting His Assessment of Putin Is a ‘Good Thing’

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HAASS: “You know, the purpose of the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is to speak truth to power. He came in after CQ Brown was fired by this president. I actually thought this was a good thing. And he's right. And by the way, Vladimir Putin, if he wants to, he could do certain things, say, in Lithuania or one of these other countries. And there's a real doubt whether the United States would meet its so-called Article 5 commitment, attack on one is attack on all in NATO. I think there's real doubt. He doesn't need to conquer a country. What Putin needs to do is expose that the commitment that's at the core of NATO is no longer certain. If he does that, that's the end of NATO as we've known it. So I actually think this is potentially a really big moment.”