From the New York Times, I'm Natalie Ketrof. This is the Daily.

As the war in Iran enters its sixth week, even as President Trump keeps signaling that it's

about to end, the fighting shows no signs of letting up.

Iran continues to fire missiles at its Gulf neighbors.

The Strait of Hormuz is still blocked.

And just this weekend, after Iran shot down a U.S. fighter jet, the U.S. military had to conduct a massive operation to rescue a downed

airmen. All the while, America's closest allies in Europe continue to refuse Trump's demands

for help. Today, my colleague Mark Landler explains why European countries want no part in this war

and how they're getting dragged in anyway.

It's Monday, April 6th.

Mark, for the first time in recent history, the U.S. has gone to war without any of our European allies joining us.

And it seems clear that President Trump is very mad at them because of this, to the point where Trump is now strongly suggesting again that he's going to leave

NATO, that the U.S. is going to pull out of NATO. Obviously, we've seen these threats before,

and we've seen the transatlantic relationship stressed for quite some time now. So put this

moment into context for me. On a scale of 1 to 10, how bad is the tension between the U.S.

and our allies right now? Well, Natalie, I'd be tempted to say 8 or 9 on a scale of 10 because the

bitterness does seem to be running very deep. We're in fairly uncharted territory with a president waging

war with no support and indeed growing opposition to it among virtually all his European allies.

Okay. I assume this really starts with the U.S. not telling our allies that we were about to go to war with Iran in the first

place. It does, but remember, to start, you really have to go even further back. You have to look at

all the accumulated scar tissue of the first year of the Trump administration. President Trump

came in, threatening to take over Greenland. Then he

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