U.S. Vice President Mike Pence walks before his meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the 53rd Munich Security Conference in Munich, Germany, February 18, 2017. REUTERS/Michael Dalder
MUNICH (Reuters) - One month into the unusual presidency of Donald Trump, his most senior cabinet members were deployed to Brussels, Bonn and Munich this week to reassure nervous Europeans that everything would be okay.
The Europeans heard from Defense Secretary James Mattis that the NATO military alliance was not "obsolete" after all, despite Trump's repeated suggestions to the contrary.
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