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NATO leaders are quietly abandoning their annual summits, calling them pointless under a confrontational Trump administration. The Ankara meeting ended with a barebones statement, no commitment to next year’s summit in Albania, and little real progress. Trump privately stayed civil but publicly slammed key allies like Britain, France, Germany, and Belgium, while also pushing Greenland. After years of courting the U.S. president — even with NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte flying to Washington repeatedly — the summit failed to deliver strategic breakthroughs. Past summits reshaped NATO’s posture on Russia and defense, but this one yielded only minor upgrades and no bold new direction. The real missed opportunity? Europe could’ve used the past year to plan for a future where it shoulders more defense responsibility — because the U.S. may no longer be the reliable anchor it once was.

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