For decades, the United States had asked its NATO allies in Europe to do more for their own defense. And by the alliance’s 2024 summit in Washington, they had gotten the message. Twenty-three of NATO’s 32 members were spending two percent of their GDP on defense, the alliance target—up from six members in 2021. In explaining this increase, many commentators cited a single factor: Donald Trump . It is true that the U.S. president’s rhetoric, broadly critical of European defense spending during

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