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Here's my colleague Katsha Adler.

The re-election of Donald Trump marks what's perhaps the most uncertain moment

in the history of the NATO military alliance.

Well, that is since the last time he was president. But that was before

large-scale warfare returned to Europe with Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, aided militarily

and otherwise by North Korea, Iran and China. NATO is a transatlantic military alliance,

and it's largely funded by the United States.

But America first Donald Trump thinks it's a very bad deal.

NATO was busted until I came along.

I said, everybody's going to pay.

They said, well, if we don't pay, are you still going to protect us?

I said, absolutely not.

With Ukraine on the back foot against Moscow and European security in jeopardy,

NATO has got a new chief, Mark Rutter, who's been dubbed the Trump Whisperer.

In his first major speech in his new job, he's called for NATO members to switch to a wartime mindset

and seriously boost defence spending.

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