President Trump leaves for NATO summit in Turkey

President Donald Trump got what he wanted from NATO at last year’s summit: an alliance whose members had largely acceded to his demands to step up their defense spending. This week when he meets leaders in Turkey, his mission is to enforce that pledge. The speed with which most NATO countries have tried to heed Trump’s call to spend 5% of their annual gross domestic product on defense over the next decade underscores how the U.S. president has reshaped the alliance and bent it to his will — even as he continues to spar with its members over the Iran war, his flirtation with annexing Greenland, and various personal tiffs. https://www.wthr.com/article/syndication/associatedpress/trump-won-big-spending-promises-from-nato-last-year-this-week-in-turkey-hell-try-to-enforce-them/616-ed470998-16f8-48a6-9839-9014275701e5