{"id":169601,"date":"2025-06-27T03:08:45","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T07:08:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2025\/06\/27\/european-defence-and-the-will-to-fight-nato-countries-must-beef-up-forces-and-political-unity\/"},"modified":"2025-06-27T03:08:45","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T07:08:45","slug":"european-defence-and-the-will-to-fight-nato-countries-must-beef-up-forces-and-political-unity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2025\/06\/27\/european-defence-and-the-will-to-fight-nato-countries-must-beef-up-forces-and-political-unity\/","title":{"rendered":"European defence and &lsquo;the will to fight&rsquo;: NATO countries must &lsquo;beef up&rsquo; forces and political unity"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Trump basked in flattery at The Hague\u2014NATO chief Mark Rutte even calling him \u201cdaddy\u201d\u2014and claimed victory as allies pledged more defense spending. But beyond the praise, Trump struck a surprisingly reverent tone on NATO, a sharp turn from years of scorn. The summit was carefully choreographed: leaders massaged numbers to satisfy Trump, rolled out royal hospitality, and kept the event ever-so-brief, all while he arrived venting over the Iran-Israel ceasefire and left basking in diplomatic affection. For in-depth analysis and a deeper perspective, FRANCE 24&rsquo;s Eve Irvine welcomes Dr. Sven Biscop, Director of the Europe in the World Programme at the Egmont Royal Institute for International Relations.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump basked in flattery at The Hague\u2014NATO chief Mark Rutte even calling him \u201cdaddy\u201d\u2014and claimed victory as allies pledged more defense spending. But beyond the praise, Trump struck a surprisingly reverent tone on NATO, a sharp turn from years of scorn. The summit was carefully choreographed: leaders massaged numbers to satisfy Trump, rolled out royal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11,20],"tags":[21,22],"class_list":["post-169601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-la-une","category-news","tag-monde","tag-world","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}