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Trump Suspends Trade with Spain and Offers Patriot Licenses to Ukraine as $50B Arms Deals Announced

President Donald Trump announced a suspension of trade with Spain and threatened cuts in US support, citing Madrid's refusal to meet his demand for 5% of GDP on defense and for bases to support an Iran campaign.He also offered to license Patriot missile production to Ukraine and suggested that Turkey could return to the F-35 program, while summit delegates unveiled more than $50B in arms deals including a 12-nation deep-strike missile effort.The NATO meeting in Ankara reaffirmed Article 5 and appointed France to command the Allied Reaction Force's land component, but leaders left without a date for the next summit as they debated raising defense-spending targets to 3.5% or 5% of GDP.Recep Tayyip Erdoğan rebuked the UE for excluding Turkey's defense industry, Volodymyr Zelenskyy pressed for Western air defenses, Denmark rejected Mr. Trump's Greenland claims, and European capitals warned that erratic US demands risk allied cohesion.
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