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NATO agrees to $50 billion in defense deals to placate Trump
By Andrea Palasciano - 7/8/2026, 12:20 AM - 141 words
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NATO agrees to $50 billion in defense deals to placate Trump
NATO leaders unveiled arms deals worth tens of billions of dollars in Turkey on Tuesday, driving home the message that they are heeding U.S. calls to spend more to defend Europe even as President Donald Trump said he felt let down and renewed his push to control Greenland.
Leaders were convening for a summit in the capital Ankara, hoping to project unity after another bruising year, in which the Iran war once again exposed cracks in the alliance that has underpinned Western security since the end of World War II.
In a meeting with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Trump said he might have boycotted the NATO summit altogether had it not been for his warm relations with the Turkish leader, and did not rule out further troop withdrawals from Europe.