Trump wants one thing from the NATO summit. Europe is going to give it to him.

[GJGCA]

Source: Politico

President Donald Trump wants one big thing from next week’s NATO leader’s summit — and European leaders are itching to give it to him. That doesn’t guarantee the president will be satisfied.

The 32-nation transatlantic military alliance will pledge to dramatically increase spending on defense to 5 percent of gross domestic product — 3.5 percent on hard military expenditures and 1.5 percent on more loosely defined defense-related efforts. The commitment, a watershed moment that could rebalance transatlantic security, will allow Trump, who’s been demanding Europe pick up more of the burden for its own defense, a significant victory on the world stage.

Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/21/trump-nato-defense-spending-00416118

[ananda]

1. I see. It really is easier to give him what you yourself want.

Trump is such a joke.

[Bayard]

2. He'll be screaming that from the rooftops

I won! I won! They followed MY orders!

[liberal N proud]

4. That is exactly what his response will be.

[PatSeg]

7. And then he'll proclaim that he deserves a

Nobel Prize. What an incredible fantasy life he must have.

[intrepidity]

11. Poetic justice if those weapons are used against him. nt

[ck4829]

3. Jesus Christ, media. This is not because of Trump. Russian aggression, say it!

The Cold War is back on and has been back on ever since Putin’s FSB poisoned Alexander Litvinenko.

[multigraincracker]

5. He may have to bring back the draft.

[FakeNoose]

6. But ... is that really what Pootie wants? I doubt it

[ancianita]

8. That Trump wants it isn't why NATO will spend more. Russia's war on Ukraine is why. Corp media want to credit the felon,

but if they omit Putin's war as NATO's more important reason, they're lying and trying to prop up the felon as presidential before a gullible American audience that's internalized corporate/oligarch network messaging.

[LauraInLA]

9. I want to know if they're really going to let the US shift Greenland to their command area.

[Mysterian]

10. And ironically, it's not happening because Trump wants it

It's happening because the rogue U.S. administration has aligned itself with Russia and other authoritarian regimes and become an unreliable partner in the defense of European democracies.