A Predictable Summit Still Offers Action Items for NATO
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President Donald Trump speaks to the media on the day of a NATO leaders' summit in Ankara, Turkey, July 8, 2026.(Umit Bektas/Reuters)
NATO survived Trump in Ankara, but it still has its work cut out.
NATOSecretary-General Mark Rutte and the rest of Washington’s European and Canadian allies closed out this year’s annual NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey, with a long exhale. From their perspective, the meeting wasn’t the disaster so many anticipated it to be. President Trump, for instance, didn’t announce a U.S. pullout from the alliance despite his frequent flirtations with doing so. He agreed to grant Ukraine a U.S. license so Kyiv can start producing its own Patriot missile interceptors, and he signed onto the communique reiterating that Article 5, the most important commandment in the NATO church, is alive and well.
Even so, the ...
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