The Rest of the World Report | September 11, 2026 — Evening Edition

The Rest of the World Podcast · Sep 11, 2026 · 13m

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TWENTY-FIVE YEARS

On September 12, 2001, NATO invoked Article 5 of its founding treaty for the first time in the alliance’s history. An attack on one member, the treaty says, is an attack on all. NATO had never used it, not once in the Cold War, not during any Soviet provocation. It used it for the United States, the day after nearly 3,000 people were killed in New York, Washington, and a field in Pennsylvania. Leaders across the world, including many who would later become Washington’s sharpest…