THE HAGUE; NATO leaders are tiptoeing around rifts at a two-day summit starting Tuesday, straining for a veneer of unity. But among Ukraine’s European backers, reality is setting in that the President Mr.Trump administration has no willingness to provide fresh military aid to Kyiv, and assistance approved during the President Biden era is running out.
Since Russia’s invasion in 2022, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was treated as a VIP guest at NATO summits. But this year, Zelensky is being relegated to the background as officials try to avoid irking President Donald Trump.
Officials in the Western military alliance spent months meticulously choreographed the NATO summit in the Netherlands this week, working to paper over rifts between European capitals and Washington, and lining up support for raising annual military target spending to 5 percent of GDP the figure President D.Trump demanded.
Now, the NATO gathering stands to be consumed by the intervention of Europe’s most powerful ally in an expanding conflict outside the euro-Atlantic sphere. President Mr.D.Trump ordered U.S. bombers to join Israel’s barrage against Iran, striking early Sunday local time, after he denigrated a last-ditch European diplomatic effort in Geneva as unhelpful.
Tehran hit back, firing missiles on Monday at a U.S. base in Qatar, which Qatari air defenses appeared to intercept.
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