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\nWhat is NATO? And why is it still around? What do you wish the presidential candidates would talk about? Almost 70 years ago, the US built a network of alliances unlike anything that had come before. Over the next few decades, they used...\nWhat is NATO? And why is it still around? What do you wish the presidential candidates would talk about? Almost 70 years ago, the US built a network of alliances unlike anything that had come before. Over the next few decades, they used those alliances to keep countries around the world close to the US, and to fight Soviet expansion, by making a promise that the US would go to war if any of its allies were ever attacked. After the Soviet Union fell, the initial purpose of those alliances was gone, but the US recommitted to them, signaling again and again that the central promise of those relationships was still in effect. It kept doing so for the next 25 years. Then the US elected a leader who took America’s global relationships in a new direction. President Trump was skeptical that America’s network of alliances was actually beneficial to the US. During his administration, allies began to see the US as unpredictable, and potentially not dedicated to its promise to defend them. Some of them moved closer to Russia or China, both of whom had attempted to undermine America’s alliances. Today, the future of those alliances is on the ballot in the US. One of the major presidential candidates in the 2020 election wants to return the US to its former status with its allies; the other finds its decades-old alliances costly and cumbersome. The world is waiting to see which vision Americans prefer. This video is the sixth in our series on the 2020 election. We aren’t covering the horse race; instead, we want to explain the stakes of the election through the issues that matter the most to you. To do that, we want to know what you think the US presidential candidates should be talking about. Tell us here Sources and further reading: Alex Ward Mira Rapp-Hooper, Shields of the Republic Mark Webber and James Sperling Joyce Kaufman Jennifer Lind Klaus Larres Fabrice Pothier and Alexander Vershbow Elena Atanassova-Cornelis Shin Kawashima, Matake Kamiya, James L. Schoff Subscribe to our channel! Vox.com is a news website that helps you cut through the noise and understand what's really driving the events in the headlines. Check out Watch our full video catalog Follow Vox on Facebook Or Twitter\n
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