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Trump doesn’t need to quit NATO to fatally undermine it

The world's most successful defensive alliance turns 77, will it last?

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Apr 05, 2026
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NATO’s 77th birthday is more a day of extreme crisis management than celebration, that is, unless you are Vladimir Putin.

Formed on April 4 1949, NATO today has expanded from its founding 12 members to 32 and by the US State Department’s own words, ‘remains the largest peacetime military alliance in the world.’

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