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Why We Stand With NATO

“There is only one thing worse than fighting with allies, and that is fighting without them.”
Source: Yves Herman / Reuters

On April 4, 1949, Johannes Kaiv, the acting consul general of Estonia’s government-in-exile, sent a letter to Secretary of State Dean Acheson, which read:

I have the honor to offer my best wishes to the signatories of the North Atlantic Pact, and to express my confidence that they, inspired by the ideals of democracy, of individual liberty, and the rule of law, will

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