Scott Newman

Balkan Devlin is a senior fellow at Canada's McDonnell Laurier Institute.

He says it could take as long as 10 years for the rest of the alliance to acquire those capabilities.

And that, says Devlin, would leave a potential vulnerability gap that Russia, which is now in its fifth year of an expansionist war in Ukraine, could exploit.

The concern is that the Trump administration will not provide that time to

to do an ordinary transition to more European leadership.

Devlin and others say the result of the loss of trust in the U.S.

is ironically creating exactly the kind of NATO Trump seems to want, one led by Europe, not the U.S.

Thanks, Alyssa.

The number of vessels passing through the Strait of Hormuz waterway has dwindled from its pre-war average of 138 ships.

Brian Clark, an expert in naval operations and electronic warfare at the Hudson Institute, says with so few vessels going through, the challenge for the Navy is manageable.

Iran says it is opening the strait for commercial vessels, but the U.S.

Navy yesterday expanded its quarantine to include all Iranian-tied vessels anywhere in the world.

Scott Newman, NPR News, Washington.

The number of vessels passing through the Strait of Hormuz waterway has dwindled from its pre-war average of 138 ships.

Brian Clark, an expert in naval operations and electronic warfare at the Hudson Institute, says with so few vessels going through, the challenge for the Navy is manageable.

Iran says it is opening the strait for commercial vessels, but the U.S.

Navy yesterday expanded its quarantine to include all Iranian-tied vessels anywhere in the world.

Scott Newman, NPR News, Washington.

In his ruling, D.C.

District Judge Randolph Moss said Trump's order issued last May amounted to an unlawful use of government power, including the power of the purse to, quote, punish or suppress disfavored expression.