NATO at 75

This is a good moment for the allies to review the raison d’etre of the North Atlantic Treaty and the strategic priorities ahead.

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NATO's outgoing secretary general, Jens Stoltenberg, left, greets his successor Mark Rutte at Brussels in 2021. AP/Francois Mori, pool

As the members of North Atlantic Treaty prepare to mark next week the alliance’s 75th birthday, it’s hard to know whom the allies see as a bigger threat — President Putin or President Trump. What else to make of the recent obsession with “Trump-proofing”? Such proofing is needed, a former American envoy says, because the alliance “is bound to be disrupted” by a re-elected Trump, “who is not interested” in “being managed himself or managing an alliance.”

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