Nick Schifrin:
The leaders announced a historic pledge to increase defense spending to 5 percent of GDP, including 3.5 percent on weapons and 1.5 percent on what’s called defense-related spending, everything from cybersecurity to infrastructure.
President Trump did not disrupt this summit, as some senior European officials told me that they feared that he would. In fact, Geoff, the same President Trump who nearly a decade ago said that he would be OK if NATO broke up instead today said that he was — quote — “honored” to be here and happy to help NATO members defend themselves.
And he also said that he would try and help Ukraine by sending more air defense, including in this interchange with BBC Ukrainian reporter Myroslava Petsa.
