Matt Welch: Ruta Felty, the Dutch prime minister, has decided not to run again. He says there will be a sense of zombie PM for quite some time as no one in his party seems up to taking it over. The annual summit of NATO starts in Lithuania and leaders are expected to approve their first comprehensive defense plans since the Cold War. Welch: This is probably the most dramatic change in Europe's defense posture since fall of Berlin Wall.

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