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BRUSSELS AP 鈥?NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said Wednesday that its European members and Canada have ramped up defense spending to record levels, as he warned that former U.S. President Donald Trump was undermining their security by calling into question the U.S. commitment to its allies.Stoltenberg said U.S. partners in NATO have spent $600 billion more on their military budgets since 2014 when聽Russias annexation of the Crimean Peninsula聽in Ukraine prompted them all to reverse the spending cuts they had made after the Cold War ended. Last year we saw an unprecedented rise of 11 percent across European allies and Cana
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