NATO allies agreed to a 5 percent defense spending target in a low-drama summit. Now what? (Atlantic Council)

In Dutch, haag, from which The Hague gets its name, means hedge. It’s perhaps fitting, then, that when NATO leaders met in The Hague this week, there were several hedges. Allies sought to hedge against an unpredictable US president by limiting the summit’s scope. They also hedged against the United States reducing its commitment to the Alliance by promising to increase defense and defense-related spending to 5 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) by 2035. And they hedged—as in avoided a direct answer—on the central issue of Russia’s ongoing war in Ukraine.

Experts react: NATO allies agreed to a 5 percent defense spending target in a low-drama summit. Now what? – Atlantic Council

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