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Trump overshadows NATO summit with attacks on allies · THE DAILY BRIEF

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  Speaker 1: NATO leaders have adopted a joint declaration as their summit
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  Speaker 1: wrapped in Akara, affirming a unified stance on several issues,
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  Speaker 1: including support for Ukraine. That's surprisingly amicable and followed a
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  Speaker 1: more turbulent beginning when US President Donald Trump complained about
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  Speaker 1: a lack of support from his European allies for his
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  Speaker 1: war in Iran.
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  Speaker 2: The Alliance came to Ankara with one overriding objective to
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  Speaker 2: demonstrate unity at the time of growing global tensions, and
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  Speaker 2: it looks like that's exactly what they did.
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  Speaker 3: I just want to say there was tremendous love in
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  Speaker 3: that room. If there's one word that comes.
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  Speaker 4: Out of today as unification, I've never seen anything like it.
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  Speaker 2: But that isn't how things started. The beginning of the
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  Speaker 2: summit was quickly overshadowed by concerns over deepening fractures in
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  Speaker 2: the alliance, highlighted by the US President.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not happy with NATO because of the fact that
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  Speaker 3: they didn't want to help us with the number one
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  Speaker 3: state sponsor of terror.
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  Speaker 2: That's a rain.
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  Speaker 1: They were unwilling to help us.
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  Speaker 5: But I was really testing.
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  Speaker 6: I wanted to see whether or not they'd be.
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  Speaker 2: There, Trump said the ceasefire with Iran maybe over, and
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  Speaker 2: he also returned to an issue that triggered one of
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  Speaker 2: NATO's worst internal disputes in recent years. Greenland.
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  Speaker 6: It was Greenland that and it continues to be that
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  Speaker 6: should be controlled by the United States, not by Denmark.
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  Speaker 2: It prompted Danish Prime Minister Metafredrickson to again make clear
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  Speaker 2: that Greenland is part of the Kingdom of Denmark.
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  Speaker 4: I heard the US President yesterday, and I think the
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  Speaker 4: US position is unfortunately very clear on this topic, and
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  Speaker 4: our position is as clear as it has been all through.
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  Speaker 4: Greenland is, of course not for sale.
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  Speaker 2: Secretary General Mark Rotte tried to de escalate, insisting the
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  Speaker 2: US President's comments where no reflection on NATO's unity. Credible
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  Speaker 2: deterrence depends on unity and on paper. NATO delivered exactly
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  Speaker 2: that with a final declaration agreed to by all thirty
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  Speaker 2: two leaders, but by undermining allies complaining about their positions
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  Speaker 2: on Iran and their repeating claims to their territory, Donald
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  Speaker 2: Trump raises questions about his commitment to NATO's security. NATO's
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  Speaker 2: commitment to Ukraine was also on display at the summit,
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  Speaker 2: including from Donald Trump himself. He said the United States
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  Speaker 2: will allowed Kiev to manufacture patriot interceptors under license, a
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  Speaker 2: significant win for President Voladimir Zelenski, who has repeatedly appealed
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  Speaker 2: for stronger protection against intensifying Russian attacks. Zelensky also secured
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  Speaker 2: promises of one hundred forty billion euros in support over
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  Speaker 2: the next two years, a strong message to Moscow that
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  Speaker 2: Europe intends to stand by Ukraine for the long haul.
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  Speaker 2: Yet when it comes to paying for that support, NATO's
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  Speaker 2: European allies are not entirely united.
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  Speaker 6: They are able to fight because of the support from
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  Speaker 6: Western countries, and that support needs to be sustained. Right now,
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  Speaker 6: quite a few number of countries are actually delivering the
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  Speaker 6: vast majority of all the support that needs to be
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  Speaker 6: increased from other countries as well.
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  Speaker 2: In the end, the summit's declaration reaffirmed NATO's core guarantee
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  Speaker 2: that an attack on one ally is an attack against all.
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  Speaker 2: All thirty two leaders agreed, including President.
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  Speaker 5: Trump W Serry Schultz, is following the NATO summit in Ankara.
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  Speaker 1: Now.
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  Speaker 5: The summit was supposed to focus on defense spending and
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  Speaker 5: support for Ukraine, but around has loomed large. How much
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  Speaker 5: has the Middle East crisis overshadowed NATO's core a gender.
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  Speaker 3: That's right, Sarah. In between the two days of the summit,
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  Speaker 3: this renewed bombing of the US on Iran began, and
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  Speaker 3: so everyone woke up here today on what is the
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  Speaker 3: main day of the meeting, and that was what was
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  Speaker 3: being talked about. That definitely dominated the discussion this morning
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  Speaker 3: between President Trump in his meeting with Secretary General Mark Rute,
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  Speaker 3: and that's where Trump announced that he believed that the
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  Speaker 3: MoU of Iran, this extended ceasefire was dead, it was over,
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  Speaker 3: and he said that there may well be more attacks tonight.
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  Speaker 3: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth canceled his planned trip to Israel
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  Speaker 3: from here in Akera to stay here and manage that situation.
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  Speaker 3: So clearly that is something that Allies are very worried about, because,
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  Speaker 3: as you mentioned, this was something that caused such deep
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  Speaker 3: divisions in NATO when they did not enthusiastically support the
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  Speaker 3: previous round of bombing, even though Mark Rut has been
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  Speaker 3: careful to point out up to five thousand sorties did
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  Speaker 3: leave from European air bases. So Allies supported Donald Trump
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  Speaker 3: quietly on this, but they're probably simply don't back the war,
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  Speaker 3: and so they couldn't say anything more.
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  Speaker 5: And tera Ukraine featured in this final summit declaration being
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  Speaker 5: called a contributor to NATO's security, does it change anything
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  Speaker 5: in terms of Ukraine's relationship with the Alliance.
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  Speaker 3: Well, of course, what Ukraine wants in the long run
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  Speaker 3: is to become a member of NATO, and that's nowhere
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  Speaker 3: close to being on the agenda for the Alliance. Yesterday,
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  Speaker 3: it got a lot of new arms deals, it's selling
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  Speaker 3: its drones to other allies. But perhaps Sarah, the biggest
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  Speaker 3: change for Iran out of this summit came today when
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  Speaker 3: Donald Trump indicated that he would allow Ukraine to start
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  Speaker 3: producing its own pack three interceptors for the Patriot systems. Now,
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  Speaker 3: that's something that Ukraine has been requesting for a long
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  Speaker 3: time because it simply can't get them delivered by allies
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  Speaker 3: fast enough with all of these ballistic missile attacks coming
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  Speaker 3: night after night from Russia. Now, these interceptors take up
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  Speaker 3: to two years to build in the West, so we're
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  Speaker 3: not talking about an overnight changer. But certainly Ukraine has
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  Speaker 3: been able to shorten timelines on a lot of weapons,
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  Speaker 3: and they're very much hoping that they'll be able to
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  Speaker 3: do that now.
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  Speaker 5: Trump said afterwards that there had been a lot of love,
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  Speaker 5: a lot of unity at this summit, but he himself
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  Speaker 5: stirred up some division. Tell us a little bit more about.
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  Speaker 3: That, that's right, and I will tell you more about
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  Speaker 3: the love fest as well. But first Donald Trump threw
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  Speaker 3: sort of a political football back into the NATO meeting
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  Speaker 3: by bringing up Greenland again. He again said that he
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  Speaker 3: believes the United States should control the island, which is
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  Speaker 3: part of the Kingdom of Denmark. That did not go
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  Speaker 3: over well. Plenty of leaders talked about that in their
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  Speaker 3: arrival statements, with them reminding President Trump that Greenland is
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  Speaker 3: a part of Denmark and Greenlanders will decide their own future.
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  Speaker 3: He also really trashed Spain, saying that he was again
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  Speaker 3: going to try to cut off trade with Spain, which
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  Speaker 3: is not possible because it's a member of the European Union.
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  Speaker 3: But then by the end, Sarah, at this last press conference,
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  Speaker 3: it was almost bizarre. He said love over and over.
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  Speaker 3: He said the other Allied leaders had told him that
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  Speaker 3: they loved him, and he couldn't get over it. He said,
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  Speaker 3: this is amazing unification, great summit, he said he couldn't
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  Speaker 3: get over you know how much love was expressed in
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  Speaker 3: the room. So that's not a word we normally hear
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  Speaker 3: thrown around at NATO summus, and it was quite a
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  Speaker 3: way to end the day.
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  Speaker 5: I can tell you, what do you think, Terry, the
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  Speaker 5: overall message coming out of this NATO meeting will be
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  Speaker 5: what is the state of the Alliance?
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  Speaker 3: Well, if you had asked me at midday, I would
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  Speaker 3: have had a different answer than now. I think that
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  Speaker 3: now allies are very much breathing a sigh of relief.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know if they'll confirm that they expressed their
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  Speaker 3: love to Donald Trump, but they certainly would prefer these
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  Speaker 3: kind of messages coming out of the United States then
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  Speaker 3: the ones that he was saying this morning that you
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  Speaker 3: know he couldn't count on them. He has said in
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  Speaker 3: the last days that Allies are not loyal to him.
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  Speaker 3: So I think that everyone is saying that this was
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  Speaker 3: a successful summit because in the end they passed their
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  Speaker 3: declaration which reaffirmed their commitment to collective security, the famous
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  Speaker 3: Article five. They promised Ukraine that they would be continuing
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  Speaker 3: to fund it at a rate of seventy billion euros
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  Speaker 3: including EU money for the next two years. They said
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  Speaker 3: that they will continue shifting the burden of defense of
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  Speaker 3: Europe onto the Europeans. Everybody's really on board with that.
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  Speaker 3: So in this final declaration they reaffirmed all of those things,
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  Speaker 3: and Donald Trump didn't put up a protest, So I
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  Speaker 3: think everybody's really breathing a sigh of relief, if not love.
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  Speaker 5: Hary Schultze, Benito summit in Ankara.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you,