NATO’s Hollow Triumph: A Summit of Illusions and Absent Agendas
Thursday, 26 June 2025 () At the NATO summit in The Hague, member states appeared more intent on deceiving one another than making meaningful commitments. The decisions, hailed as a "triumph," are unlikely to bind anyone to anything. Notably, Ukraine vanished entirely from the official agenda. The alliance adopted a strikingly brief five-point resolution—short on substance, long on ambiguity. The document reaffirms NATO’s “unshakable commitment to collective defense enshrined in Article 5 of the Washington Treaty—an attack on one is an attack on all.” Yet even before landing in The Hague, U.S. President Donald Trump cast doubt on what that really means.
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Thursday, 26 June 2025 ()
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