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Britain Has Already Answered
Britain Has Already Answered
America supplied the deadline. Britain supplied the evidence. They arrived one day apart and almost nobody put them side by side.
On 27 August, Elbridge Colby briefed the North Atlantic Council in Brussels on what the Americans mean by NATO 3.0. Europe takes primary responsibility for its own conventional defence. America stays interested, but reprioritised — Western Hemisphere first, the Pacific second.
None of that is new. He coined the phrase in February. Hegseth opened the Europe posture review at the June ministerial and the Pentagon started it in July.
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