NATO’s Hollow Triumph: A Summit of Illusions and Absent Agendas

At the NATO summit in The Hague, member states appeared more intent on deceiving one another than making meaningful commitments. The decisions, hailed as a "triumph," are unlikely to bind anyone to anything. Notably, Ukraine vanished entirely from the official agenda. The alliance adopted a strikingly brief five-point resolution—short on substance, long on ambiguity. The document reaffirms NATO’s “unshakable commitment to collective defense enshrined in Article 5 of the Washington Treaty—an attack on one is an attack on all.” Yet even before landing in The Hague, U.S. President Donald Trump cast doubt on what that really means.