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[–] 45 points 6 months ago (7 children)

That was one labored sentence! I cannot be the only one that parsed it as: "Trump says he's been rejected by NATO (while) most allies (are) to join mission ..."

Instead, it wants to say: "Trump says he's been rejected by NATO and most allies (in his desire for them) to join mission ..."

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (5 children)

    The comma is for enumeration and not for segregation of two sentences. So it makes sense. They just used a comma instead of an "and".

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    News title grammar has distinctly different rules from normal language. Extreme brevity and using commas in place of any other punctuation are typical of it.

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