NATO’s Credibility Crisis: When the Alliance Survives But the Guarantee Dies

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Last Tuesday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio told European defense ministers that Article 5 the collective defense clause binding NATO together for 75 years was now conditional on specific defense spending targets. No longer would an attack on one member automatically trigger American response. Instead, response would depend on whether that member had met Washington’s [...] The post NATO’s Credibility Crisis: When the Alliance Survives But the Guarantee Dies appeared first on Modern Diplomacy .