00:00Europe has quietly started planning for a NATO without America.
00:03The Carnegie Endowment reports that allies at the Ankara Summit
00:06are no longer focused on appeasing President Trump.
00:10They are engineering a Europe-led defense structure
00:13built to function without U.S. conventional leadership.
00:16This is the biggest shift in transatlantic security in 70 years.
00:20And seven U.S. states are the ones most exposed to the consequences.
00:24The states with the largest NATO-linked defense industry workforces,
00:28the most military partnerships with Europe,
00:30and the biggest forward-deployment agreements stand to lose.
00:34The most, economically and strategically,
00:37if America's role in NATO continues to shrink.
00:40Trump has signaled he wants Europe to take primary responsibility for conventional defense.
00:45Europe is now taking him at his word
00:47and building the structure to make that happen.
00:50The question is whether America is ready for what that means.
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