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President Donald Trump\u2019s careening performance at the NATO summit in Turkey has reporters relating stories of \u201cmenacing threats\u201d and \u201ccomical misnomers<\/u>,\u201d \u201csabre-rattling\u201d and \u201ctremendous love<\/u>,\u201d but while the conference got off to a rocky start<\/u>, analysts assert that \u201calliance leaders, who had feared the worst, will hail US president\u2019s renewed support for Article 5 as key victory.\u201d<\/p>\n

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According to the Guardian, \u201cHaving arrived at NATO\u2019s annual summit under a familiar cloud of resentment and grievance, Donald Trump\u2019s farewell message on Wednesday was an unlikely tale of love and darkness.\u201d While speaking to reporters with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Trump declared, \u201cIt was a great meeting. There was a lot of love in that room today, a lot of unity. It couldn\u2019t have gone much better.\u201d <\/p>\n

This surprised everyone, reports the Guardian\u2019s Robert Tait, writing, \u201cIt was quite the transformation from earlier, when the US president had sat beside NATO\u2019s secretary general, Mark Rutte, and spouted a well-rehearsed litany of complaints, including a perceived lack of support on the war with Iran, and Spain\u2019s refusal to comply with new defence spending targets.\u201d Trump had spent much of the previous day \u201cspewing bile\u201d over his \u201cwell-worn gripe about Greenland,\u201d and European leaders were reportedly so worried that he was in a bad mood after the American team lost to Belgium in the World Cup that they agreed to avoid the subject. Then he startled NATO leaders during a private meeting where he delivered none of his usual attacks, instead telling allies, \u201cWe want to remain with you.\u201d <\/p>\n

According to Guardian reporter Dan Sabbagh, Trump concluded the summit “by hosting a rambling press conference that barely addressed NATO topics, but where he praised Turkey\u2019s strongman president, Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan, talked up the US economy and said he was \u2018No 1 on TikTok.\u2019\u201d He also took a moment to rant that the Iranian leadership \u201cscum,\u201d and to reiterate his want of Greenland. <\/p>\n

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In the end, \u201cthe final summit declaration, signed off by Trump and 31 other alliance leaders, affirmed the countries\u2019 \u2018ironclad commitment\u2019 to Article 5, which declares that an attack one NATO member is an attack on them all.\u201d But while this will be viewed by NATO leaders as a win for the future of the alliance, the conference still concluded with troubling questions unanswered. <\/p>\n

\u201cThere was also no announcement of the date for the next leaders\u2019 summit, due to happen in Albania, where anti-Trump and anti-government protests are taking place, amid hints it would not happen until 2028,\u201d notes Sabbagh. \u201cNATO summits have not always taken place annually but the overwhelming concern in parts of Europe is that Trump\u2019s grandstanding at such events risks giving hope to the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, undermining deterrence and alliance unity.<\/p>\n

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