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How Trump’s Spurning of European Allies Is Transforming NATO

US President Trump at the 2018 NATO Summit.Photographer: Sean Gallup/Getty Images

NATO is trying to reinvent itself just as the military alliance confronts Europe’s deadliest conflict since World War II.

At a summit in The Hague on June 24-25, European leaders tried to convince President Donald Trump not to withdraw US troops and weaponry from the region or pull the military aid that’s helped Ukraine avoid being overrun by Russian forces.