More money for weapons

NATO Leaders Attend 2025 Summit In The Hague

President Trump has squashed NATO. Credit: Andrew Harnik/Getty Images

Was the NATO summit in The Hague a meeting of historic significance? After all, member states will spend five percent of their economic output annually on defense by 2035 at the latest. It was completely unimaginable a few months ago, but then President Trump took on the matter and now the deal is in place. So monumental and world-historical - Dieter Herrmann, editor-in-chief of WEEK IN AUSTRALIA, has his doubts about that.


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