Mark Rutte has spent nearly two years trying to keep the US committed to NATO while President Donald Trump demands personal loyalty and questions the alliance’s defense guarantees.At the White House Rutte presented a chart called the "Trump Trillion" showing that European and Canadian defense spending has reached $1.2T since 2017 and warned that allies still struggle to turn budgets into deployable forces.The summit in Turkey hosted by
Recep Tayyip Erdogan will test whether
Article 5 and
NATO’s consensus model can survive US signals of troop and asset reductions as
Russia probes European defenses.