Canada is taking an outsized role in the construction of the post-American world
The meeting had been intended to be a carefully staged show of support for Ukraine in the war with Russia, coupled with an equally carefully staged display of Europe’s commitment to its own defence, all in the service of proving to Mr. Trump that the bargain struck at NATO’s 2025 meeting in The Hague – higher non-U.S. defence spending in return for continued U.S. engagement in Europe – was actually being implemented.Opinion: Was the NATO summit a success? He had been attacking and ridiculing NATO, and individual NATO leaders, for months prior to the summit, particularly over their failure to involve themselves in the Iran war – a debacle that has nothing to do with NATO or its core mandate.
- ▪The meeting had been intended to be a carefully staged show of support for Ukraine in the war with Russia, coupled with an equally carefully staged display of Europe’s commitment to its own defence, all in the service of proving to Mr.
- ▪Trump that the bargain struck at NATO’s 2025 meeting in The Hague – higher non-U.S. defence spending in return for continued U.S. engagement in Europe – was actually being implemented.Opinion: Was the NATO summit a success?
- ▪He had been attacking and ridiculing NATO, and individual NATO leaders, for months prior to the summit, particularly over their failure to involve themselves in the Iran war – a debacle that has nothing to do with NATO or its core mandate.
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Open this photo in gallery:Prime Minister Mark Carney speaks during a media availability at the NATO Summit in Ankara, Turkey, on Wednesday.Adrian Wyld/The Canadian PressShareSave for laterPlease log in to bookmark this story.Log InCreate Free AccountAnnual gatherings of the great democracies in the age of Donald Trump have acquired a certain … rhythm. There is the meeting that takes place before the President arrives, when all is as it usually is between world leaders of the same broad ideological hue: convivial open sessions, chummy photo-ops, urgent side-conferences.Then there is what happens after he gets there, and the desperate scramble to reconcile the chaos that ensues with the serene normalcy that went before: to insist that the torrent of lunacies foaming out of the President’s…
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