From Trump Fighting Back on Iran Reports to Defense Spending Pledges, the Key Takeaways From the 2025 NATO Summit

TIME

In a week that dealt with the aftermath of the U.S. launching strikes on Iran, and the brokering of an Israel-Iran cease-fire, albeit a fragile one, global leaders put on a somewhat united front at the 2025 NATO Summit.

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00:00As you know, last weekend, the United States successfully carried out a massive precision strike

00:06on Iran's nuclear enrichment facilities, and it was very, very successful.

00:14It was called obliteration.

00:16No other military on Earth could have done it,

00:18and now this incredible exercise of American strength has paved the way for peace

00:24with the historic ceasefire agreement late Monday,

00:28and we call it the 12-day war.

00:31Spoke to a few people.

00:32I guess that just sounded like the right name.

00:35It was a 12-day war.

00:38And we think it's over.

00:39I don't think they're going to be going back at each other.

00:41I don't think so.

00:43Not only have we dealt decisively with the critical threat of Iran's nuclear program,

00:48which was what I wanted.

00:49I said Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon.

00:51I've said that for 15 years, long before I decided to do the political thing.

00:58But we've also reasserted the credibility of American deterrence, which is like no other.

01:05Over the past few days, I was honored to participate in the NATO leaders' meeting

01:09and also had extremely good individual discussions with the king and the queen,

01:14Secretary General Ruta, the United States accounts for two-thirds of all NATO defense spending.

01:20Since I began pushing for additional commitments in 2017, believe it or not,

01:25our allies have increased spending by $700 billion.

01:29I said to people, you don't have any money.

01:32And a lot of them weren't paying.

01:34And so I started the process and I picked it up as soon as I got back, which is six months ago.

01:38And following my election last November, almost all have accelerated plans to reach

01:45the 2 percent, 3 percent, 4 percent, and then ultimately very quickly 5 percent.

01:52Mark Rutter, the NATO chief, who is your friend, he called you daddy earlier.

01:58Do you regard your NATO allies as kind of children?

02:03No, he likes me.

02:04I think he likes me.

02:05If he doesn't, I'll let you know.

02:07I'll come back and I'll hit him hard, okay?

02:09But do you regard...

02:09He did it very affectionately.

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