Early this morning, Russia sent a swarm of drones into Poland. The crisis of the NATO alliance that people on both sides of the Atlantic have been denying or trying to put off is now here: This is the moment when the world finds out whether the United States remains committed to the defense of its allies.

Ever since he began running for president, Donald Trump has been equivocal at best about America’s security commitments to Europe. The allies have hoped to jolly Trump along, manipulating him by appealing to his vanity, calling him “Daddy,” acceding to his punitive tariffs without resistance, and generally accepting a humiliating subservience in the hope of at least buying time. The allies have even fantasized about the United States providing some form of security should they put troops

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