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FILE - Supreme Allied Commander Europe, General Christopher Cavoli addresses a media conference at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Thursday, Jan. 18, 2024. NATO's military headquarters is based in Mons, Belgium. It is always run by a top U.S. officer. The current supreme allied commander Europe (SACEUR) is Army Gen. Christopher Cavoli. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo, File)
FILE - From left, Lithuania's President Gitanas Nauseda, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, President Joe Biden, Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy pose during a meeting of the NATO-Ukraine Council during a NATO summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, July 12, 2023. U.S. President Joe Biden and his NATO counterparts are meeting in Washington this week to mark the 75th anniversary of the world's biggest security organization just as Russia presses its advantage on the battlefield in Ukraine. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin, File)
FILE - 155 mm M795 artillery projectiles are stacked during manufacturing process at the Scranton Army Ammunition Plant in Scranton, Pa., Thursday, April 13, 2023. The 155 mm howitzer round is one of the most requested artillery munitions of the Ukraine war. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)
FILE - President Joe Biden listens as Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks during a meeting on the sidelines of the NATO summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, Wednesday, July 12, 2023. U.S. President Joe Biden and his NATO counterparts are meeting in Washington this week to mark the 75th anniversary of the world's biggest security organization just as Russia presses its advantage on the battlefield in Ukraine. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)
FILE - NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, left, greets Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte during arrivals for a NATO summit at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Monday, June 14, 2021. The United States is the most powerful member of NATO. It spends much more on defense than any other ally and far outweighs its partners in terms of military muscle. NATO's day-to-day work is led by its secretary-general Jens Stoltenberg, until he is replaced on Oct. 1, 2024 by Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte. (AP Photo/Francois Mori, Pool, File)
FILE - NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, right, speaks with United States President Joe Biden during a meeting of the NATO-Ukraine Council during a NATO summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, July 12, 2023. U.S. President Joe Biden and his NATO counterparts are meeting in Washington this week to mark the 75th anniversary of the world's biggest security organization just as Russia presses its advantage on the battlefield in Ukraine. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin, File)
FILE - French sailors form a chain to load supplies on board of the French navy frigate Normandie during a port call in a Norwegian fjord, north of the Arctic circle, as part of exercises codenamed Steadfast Defender, Friday March 8, 2024. With the war in its third year, NATO now has 500,000 military personnel on high readiness to counter an attack, whether it be on land, at sea, by air or in cyberspace. Allies are almost continuously conducting military exercises. One of them this year, Steadfast Defender, involved around 90,000 troops operating across Europe. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus, File)
FILE - Ukrainian soldiers of the 71st Jaeger Brigade fire a M101 howitzer towards Russian positions at the frontline, near Avdiivka, Donetsk region, Ukraine, Friday, March 22, 2024. Much of what NATO can do for Ukraine, and indeed for global security, is misunderstood. Often in the public mind, the alliance is thought of as the sum of all U.S. relations with its European partners, from imposing sanctions and other costs on Russia to sending arms and ammunition. But as an organization its brief is limited to the defense by military means of its 32 member countries and a commitment to help keep the peace in Europe and North America. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky, File)
FILE - A man walks among flags of member countries as protocol prepare for a flag raising ceremony to mark the accession of Sweden at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Monday, March 11, 2024. U.S. President Joe Biden and his NATO counterparts are meeting in Washington this week to mark the 75th anniversary of the world's biggest security organization just as Russia presses its advantage on the battlefield in Ukraine. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert, File)
FILE - Belgium's Premier and Foreign Minister Paul-Henri Spaak, seated center, tests a new pen before signing the North Atlantic Pact in Washington, DC, April 4, 1949, flanked by Belgium's Ambassador to the U.S., Baron Silvercruys, left, and John W. Foley of the U.S. State Department. Seated behind, from left, are Britain's Ernest Bevin, Norway's Halvard Lange, Luxembourg's Joseph Bech, Iceland's Bjarni Benediktsson, Denmark's Gustav Rasmussen, U.S. President Harry S. Truman, U.S. Secretary of State Dean Acheson; Canada's Lester Pearson, France's Robert Schuman, Italy's Count Carlo Spforza, Holland's Dirk Stikker and Portugal's Jose Caeiro Da Matta. Founded in 1949, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization was formed by 12 nations to counter the threat to European security posed by the Soviet Union during the Cold War. (AP Photo, File)