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I'm Mark Filipino, and here's the news you need to start your day.

As the war in Ukraine rages on, NATO wants to overhaul the way it approaches the Baltics.

Estonia's Prime Minister claims NATO was okay relinquishing the Baltics if Russia invaded,

and then sometime down the road, NATO would try and get the region back.

Now, NATO said it never goes into detail about its operations,

but its Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg told the FT that NATO has a new military blueprint

when it comes to the Baltics. Henry Foy is here to tell me more about the strategy.

Hi, Henry.

Hey, Mark.

So, Henry, you spoke to Stoltenberg. What exactly is the plan here?

So, the context here is that Stoltenberg heads to Madrid this week where he's going to be with

the 30 other leaders of NATO, and they're going to effectively decide the next strategic approach

for NATO for the next decade, but most importantly, they're going to completely overhaul how they

think the eastern part of NATO should be defended. So, that's the Baltic states. It's Poland,

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