Atlantic Council Dir.: There Are a Lot of Questions on Trump’s Commitment to NATO

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TAUSSIG: "Well, I think Secretary General Rutte publicly is looking to make this a summit of delivery of allies, delivering on pledges made at the Hague summit, delivering on the historic 5% of defense spending of GDP that allies signed up to last year. Publicly, this is meant to be a summit of allies stepping up, delivering on spending, delivering on production, delivering for Ukraine. But in the hallways, there are a lot of questions, crises of confidence in American leadership, questions over how well this summit is going to go, questions over what the president is going to say in his press conference later today, and questions about whether the alliance can move forward with a unified front. And so, again, as the secretary general looks to project unity, there are a lot of questions in the hallway here about to what extent this president and the United States are fully engaged and committed to the alliance."