Overview
- The summit concluded Wednesday with NATO leaders issuing an Article 5 reaffirmation and announcing roughly $50 billion in coordinated procurement and about $80 billion in new support for Ukraine.
- President Trump closed the meeting praising alliance unity after days of sharp criticism of some members and public bargaining over trade, Greenland and sanctions on Turkey.
- Trump said the United States would "give a license" for Ukraine to produce Patriot air-defense interceptors, a proposal that officials described as developing with technical, legal and industrial details still unresolved.
- U.S. strikes on Iranian-linked targets and Iranian counterstrikes occurred during the summit period, prompting Trump to declare the fragile ceasefire "over" and pushing oil prices and market volatility higher.
- The president left Ankara on the older Air Force One, switched to the new Qatari‑gifted 747 at RAF Mildenhall, and while U.S. officials downplayed the change, unnamed security sources and critics raised questions about the jet’s current defensive capabilities and related precautions.