Cracks within NATO rapidly widened.
Turkey announced a suspension of its participation in joint military exercises, citing concerns over "the mental state of the American commander."
Poland quietly signed a defense pact with Germany, transferring management rights of the U.S. military bases originally deployed on its eastern border to the European Union. Most symbolically, Norway announced the transfer of some functions of the NATO Joint Warfare Centre to Brussels, marking the first "repatriation of power" since the end of the Cold War.
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