Amid all the global tensions that have been going on across the globe, President Donald Trump on Wednesday will meet with members of a NATO alliance. He will be meeting the members with whom he has worked to bend to his will over the years and whose members are rattled by his latest comments casting doubt on the US commitment to its mutual defence guarantees.

As reported by AP, Donald Trump's comments en route to the Netherlands that his fidelity to Article 5 “depends on your definition" are likely to draw a spotlight at the NATO summit, as will the new and fragile Iran-Israel ceasefire that Trump helped broker after the US unloaded airstrikes on Iran's nuclear facilities.
At the same time, the alliance is poised to enact one of Trump's chief priorities for NATO: a pledge by its member countries to increase, sometimes significantly, how much they spend on their defence.

“NATO was broken, and I said, 'You're going to have to pay.'"
Moreover, Donald Trump said on Tuesday, “And we did a whole thing, and now they're paying a lot. Then I said, "You're going to have to lift it to 4 or 5 per cent, and 5 per cent is better.”