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Inside NATO's Summit

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NATO's Military Commitment to Other Countries

NATO has come to similar conclusions that its conventional military forces aren't capable, and they are not structured enough. A question mark hangs over the United States because it's impossible to disentangle Japan and China question from European question. It is just really clear, I think, even after Russia's invasion of Ukraine, that there just is not the appetite in most Western European countries for defense spending.

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