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Anxiety in the air as leaders gather for Nato’s 75th anniversary summit

Ukraine funding is on the agenda but looming large over the meeting are questions over Biden and the likely return of Trump as US president.

Flags flutter at Nato’s headquarters in Brussels. Leaders are gathering in Washington for Nato’s 75th anniversary summit. Every nation that joined Nato did so because it believed this was important for its security, says the writer. The attraction of collective security, not territorial ambition, drove Nato’s growth.

Leaders will gather in Washington for Nato’s 75th anniversary summit this week.

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Jonathan Eyal

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Any military alliance that

lasts 75 years

and still has a queue of countries wanting to join it deserves a celebration. That’s precisely what the leaders of the member-states of Nato, the US-led military alliance in Europe, are doing this week in Washington as they gather for their anniversary summit.

They will meet in the Mellon Auditorium – the neoclassical building not far from the White House – at the precise spot where and at the exact time when the alliance’s founding charter was signed just a few years after World War II. There will be plenty of ringing speeches, backslapping and the clinking of champagne glasses.

Anxiety in the air as leaders gather for Nato’s 75th anniversary summit

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