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This week saw a big change for Europe, Nato and UK security. It was agreed that Iran was not a mainstream Nato and Europe pre-occupation. Donald Trump has sucked the oxygen out of the headlines at the Nato summit in Holland by being referred to as the “big Daddy” –…

Trump made no pledge of assistance to Ukraine at NATO summit, but said he’d ‘try’ and sell Patriot interceptors.

This is what America has come to - we are cringing, but not surprised.

With hawks on one side and doves on the other, we ignore the obvious fact that engagement is the best defence against conflict, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

Daddy issues confirmed.

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Donald Trump is a difficult figure to deal with, both for foreign leaders and figures closer to home who find themselves in his crosshairs. The US president is unpredictable, sensitive and willing to break the rules to get his way.

Mark Rutte had an unenviable task at the Hague summit this week. The Nato secretary-general had to work with diverging American and European views of current security threats. After Rutte made extraordinary efforts at highly deferential, overt flattery of Donald Trump to secure crucial outcomes for the alliance, he seems…

Trump administration posts cringeworthy video set to 2010 song by Usher and viral mockery ensues