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Trump delivers 'rambling' mixed bag at NATO
NATO’s Ritual of DeferencePower, Not PersonalityThe point of this summit was never Trump’s mood. It was institutional power. Trump and 31 other alliance leaders signed a declaration reaffirming “ironclad” commitment to Article 5, and that is the real story: the security architecture of NATO still depends on the United States, and everyone in the room knows it. The choreography of complaint, flattery, and reversal only matters because it is how power gets negotiated in public.The Misleading DramaThe reporting tries to sell a transformation narrative: Trump arrived angry, muttered about…
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