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Denmark, France and Germany have joined a new mission to bolster the military alliance's eastern flank.

To avoid this outcome, Bolsonaro forged alliances with an array of legislative parties and strange bedfellows.

The Yonhap News Agency published an editorial on Thursday urging the two countries to "cooperate to repair cracks in their alliance".

But given the president's previous ambivalence about Nato, alliance members want reassurance that when the sovereignty of an ally is threatened, Washington can be relied on to respond.

Tusk, who convened an emergency meeting on Wednesday morning, has asked to invoke article 4 of the Nato treaty, which formally starts urgent talks between members of the alliance.