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How NATO Is Quietly Reinventing Itself for Trump

President Donald Trump and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte at the NATO Summit in Ankara, Turkey, on July 8, 2026. —Klaudia Radecka-NurPhoto via Getty ImagesThe portents were not good. Before departing for the recent NATO summit in Ankara, President Donald Trump took to Truth Social to berate the alliance. He posted figures suggesting the alliance was a financial burden on the United States. He complained about allies neither contributing their fair shares nor standing with America. And he deemed it ridiculous for the U.S. to continue along this “one-sided” path.Things didn’t improve when Tru...