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Flags of NATO member countries blow in the wind outside at NATO headquarters in Brussels, March 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

White House officials say Biden will have the stamina for next week’s NATO summit

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Trump and NATO illustration by Greg Groesch / The Washington Times

Trump is no threat to NATO, but he could be its savior

By Bilal Bilici

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg, right, greets Netherlands Prime Minister Mark Rutte during arrivals for a NATO summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, Tuesday, July 11, 2023. NATO on Wednesday, June 26, 2024, appointed Mark Rutte as its next secretary-general, putting the outgoing Dutch prime minister in charge of the world's biggest security organization at a critical time for European security as war rages in Ukraine. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin, File)

NATO officially names Mark Rutte, outgoing Dutch prime minister, as new secretary-general

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, left, and Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte shake hands for the cameras prior to a meeting in The Hague, Netherlands, Tuesday, June 27, 2023. NATO on Wednesday, June 26, 2024 appointed Mark Rutte as its next secretary-general, putting the outgoing Dutch prime minister in charge of the world's biggest security organization at a critical time for European security as war rages in Ukraine. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File)

An alliance under strain turns to a consensus builder in Rutte

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg, right, greets Netherlands Prime Minister Mark Rutte during arrivals for a NATO summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, Tuesday, July 11, 2023. NATO on Wednesday, June 26, 2024, appointed Mark Rutte as its next secretary-general, putting the outgoing Dutch prime minister in charge of the world's biggest security organization at a critical time for European security as war rages in Ukraine. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin, File)

NATO appoints outgoing Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte as its next secretary-general

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Romanian President klaus Iohannis exits a voting cabin during European and local elections in Bucharest, Romania, Sunday, June 9, 2024. Voters across the European Union are going to the polls on the final day of voting for the European parliamentary elections to choose their representatives for the next five-year term. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru)

And then there was one: Mark Rutte. Romania’s president withdraws from the race for NATO chief

By Lorne Cook - Associated Press

FILE - In this March 10, 2019 photo Polish troops in combat gear are seen during brief exercise with some other NATO forces in Wesola, near Warsaw, central Poland. Poland’s foreign minister says that this NATO nation should not exclude the possibility of sending its troops to Ukraine and should keep Russian leader Vladimir Putin in suspence as to such a decision being ever made. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski, File)

Thousands of NATO troops join drills in the strategically sensitive Baltic Sea region

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Canada's Defense Minister Bill Blair, center, speaks with Estonia's Defense Minister Hanno Pevkur, left, and Finland's Defense Minister Antti Hakkanen during a meeting of the North Atlantic Council in NATO defense ministers format at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Friday, June 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

Canada’s defense investment in the Arctic puts it on track to meet NATO guideline, minister says

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A peace summit for Ukraine opens in Switzerland, but Russia won’t be taking part

By Jamey Keaten - Associated Press

United States Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, second left, arrives for a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of a NATO defense ministers meeting at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Thursday, June 13, 2024. NATO defense ministers gathered Thursday hoping to agree on a new plan to provide long-term security assistance and military training to Ukraine, after Hungary promised not to veto the scheme as long as it's not forced to take part. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo, Pool)

NATO defense ministers thrash out new security aid and training support plan for Ukraine

By Lorne Cook - Associated Press

Russia's President Vladimir Putin and nuclear weapons illustration by Linas Garsys / The Washington Times

Don’t let Putin bolster weak hand in Ukraine with nuclear bluff

By Daniel N. Hoffman

Europe, NATO and a second Donald Trump presidential term illustration by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Trump terrifies Europe

By Jed Babbin

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg talks during his joint press conference with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, April 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg: Supporting Ukraine a priority over replenishing military stockpiles

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

FILE -Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, right, and Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte shake hands at the end of joint news conference, in Ankara, Turkey, Tuesday, March 22, 2022. Turkey has told its NATO allies that Ankara will back the Netherlands’ outgoing Prime Minister Mark Rutte’s candidacy for the military alliance’s secretary general position, a senior Turkish official said Monday, April 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici, File)

Turkey says it backs outgoing Dutch prime minister Rutte’s candidacy for NATO chief

By Suzan Fraser - Associated Press

United States Permanent Representative to NATO, Julianne Smith, takes her seat during a meeting of the North Atlantic Council in defense ministers session at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Thursday, Feb. 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

U.S. NATO envoy doesn’t expect Ukraine to be offered membership at July D.C. summit

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg, left, shakes hands with Poland's Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski at a ceremony to mark the 75th anniversary of NATO at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Thursday, April 4, 2024. NATO marked on Thursday 75 years of collective defense across Europe and North America, with its top diplomats vowing to stay the course in Ukraine as better-armed Russian troops assert control on the battlefield. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)

With war in Ukraine on its border, Poland wants to be among the countries setting Europe’s agenda

By Vanessa Gera and Monika Scislowska - Associated Press

FILE - In this picture provided by Swedish Coast Guard, a leak from Nord Stream 2 is seen, on Sept. 28, 2022. A Chinese container ship remains to be the prime suspect in causing damage last year to a Baltic Sea gas pipeline running between NATO members Finland and Estonia which was reopened this week after multimillion-euro repair work, (Swedish Coast Guard via AP, File)

A Chinese ship remains the focus of the investigation into Baltic Sea gas pipeline damaged last year

By Jari Tanner - Associated Press

Poland's President Andrej Duda addresses a media conference at the Palace of the Grand Dukes of Lithuania during the Three Seas Initiative Summit and Business Forum in Vilnius, April 11, 2024. Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is scheduled to meet with Polish President Andrzej Duda on Wednesday in New York. (AP Photo/Mindaugas Kulbis, File)

Trump to meet with Polish President Duda as NATO leaders call for additional support for Ukraine

By Steve Peoples - Associated Press

In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Office, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, left, shakes hands with U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin in Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, Nov. 20, 2023. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP)

Bold move or reckless escalation? Debate flares on Western boots on the ground in Ukraine

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Two military personnel stand underneath the flags of NATO alliance members during wreath laying ceremony at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Thursday, April 4, 2024. NATO celebrates on Thursday 75 years of collective defense across Europe and North America as Russia's war on Ukraine enters its third year. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

NATO marks its 75th birthday as Russia’s war in Ukraine gnaws at its unity

By Lorne Cook and Matthew Lee - Associated Press