UNITED STATES PERSPECTIVE

Fox News reports 'NATO scrambles jets as Russia fires nearly 400 drones toward Ukraine.' The framing is telling: for Fox, NATO still exists and works. No questioning of the Alliance — on the contrary, Russia as threat validates America's role as protector. This is the interventionist camp speaking.

But America's real fracture lies elsewhere. Trump himself accuses NATO of failing to back the US in Iran — creating the absurd situation of a president attacking the alliance he's supposed to lead. Politico, meanwhile, covers the Illinois primaries where internal Republican Party cleavages emerge — between Trumpists who want to leave NATO and the establishment that wants to maintain it.

The US is the only country in the panel where the NATO debate is primarily a domestic one. Europe, Canada, Korea ask 'can we defend ourselves without the US?' America asks 'do we still want to defend others?' — and the answer depends on who wins the primaries.