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European Union nations have a little-known obligation to protect one another. Experts caution it is no replacement for NATO.

The military alliance routinely scrambles fighter aircraft to intercept Russian warplanes that approach or fly near NATO airspace. NATO says the Russian planes it intercepts often fail to use their transponders and don't communicate with air traffic controllers or file a flight plan. NATO jets are sent up to identify them.

EU leaders were pressed by Cyprus this week to clarify how the bloc's little-used mutual defense clause is supposed to work, aiming to better protect member countries while not undermining NATO. “The treaty is very clear about the what,

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk told the Financial Times, Europe's "biggest, most important question" is whether the U.S. is ready to be a loyal NATO partner if such a situation arises.

The EU's mutual assistance clause and NATO's collective defence are "complementary to each other", High Representative Kaja Kallas told Euronews amid Donald Trump's threats to withdraw from the alliance.

Retired Navy Adm. James Stavridis, the former NATO allied supreme commander, suggested on Thursday that reopening the Strait of Hormuz largely hinges on the U.S. military’s ability to stop Iranian