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TIL that Hawaii is not protected by Article 5 of the NATO Treaty. Article 6 limits collective defense to territories in Europe, North America, Turkey, and North Atlantic islands north of the Tropic of Cancer. Hawaii falls just south of that line and has never been added.

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