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Thu · 16 Jul 2026

NATO Members Near 4% GDP Defense Spend as Ankara Summit Opens

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NATO Members Near 4% GDP Defense Spend as Ankara Summit Opens

💶 ANKARA — 4% GDP reached; Rutte handed Trump his own metric. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: NATO hitting 4% before Trump demands it is Rutte preempting the extraction — offering the number before it's extracted. The defense contract announcements lock in US industry, giving Trump a domestic win that softens pressure. For Italy and France, already fiscally strained, 4% sets a new baseline that's hard to walk back post-summit.

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