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new world.com.com. UK forward slash two mats. First question comes from Hannah. It's a brief one.

Hannah asks, is NATO dead? Well, is it dead, Matt? I was just thinking about the

parrot sketch.

And it does feel as if it's at least stunned or resting or nailed to its perch.

I mean, no, it isn't dead yet. But we have to face the grim fact that this really, I think, is its worst crisis so far because

the very existence of the alliance is in doubt because there's the prospect of one member,

the US, the biggest member, the most important member, taking on another member, which is Denmark

over Greenland. Now, there have been conflicts in the past over separate issues like Suez in 56,

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