Since he started work as NATO secretary-general almost two years ago, Mark Rutte has spent much of his time trying to keep the United States anchored to the world’s biggest military alliance.
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        The point is to make belligerents back down by raising the cost they’d have to pay by carrying through.

        This particular belligerent backs down so often that there’s a special acronym for it, so NATO’s a perfectly good protective tool here.