"It's not only a crisis for NATO, it's a crisis for the transatlantic community at large, and a challenge to the world order as we have known it since World War Two," he said in an interview from the World Economic Forum in Davos. Addressing the European Parliament, von der Leyen said Europe had to toughen up to influence the world around it -- while warning the United States that strife between "allies" over Greenland would only embolden rivals of the West. "The shift in the international order is not only seismic, but it is permanent," she told lawmakers, citing the "volatile situation" around Greenland, but also Russia's relentless bombing of Ukraine and tensions from the Middle East to the Indo-Pacific.
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