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U.S. president-elect Donald Trump needs to clarify his views on Russia, and to understand that NATO must be treated as an alliance of shared values rather than a business, Germany’s defense minister said.

“What his advisors will hopefully tell him and what he needs to learn is that NATO isn’t just a business. It’s not a company,” Ursula von der Leyen told a ZDF talk show on Nov. 10. “I don’t know how he values NATO.”

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