European angst and American anger were on full display at this week’s NATO meeting of heads of state in Brussels. Though hardly a love-fest, differences belied important progress. For Russia, this was definitely not a winning outcome.
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(Front row from L) Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Bulgaria's President Rumen Radev, Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama, Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel, King Philippe of Belgium, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, US President Donald Trump, Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, (second row from L) Croatian President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic, Czech President Milos Zeman, Danish Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen, Estonia's Prime Minister Juri Ratas, French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban, Iceland's Prime Minister Bjarni Benediktsson, Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni, Latvia's President Raimonds Vejonis, (third row from L) Lituania's President Dalia Grybauskaite, Luxembourg's Prime Minister Xavier Bettel, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, Norway's Prime Minister Erna Solberg, Polish President Andrzej Duda, Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Costa, Romanian President Klaus Werner Iohannis, Slovakia's President Andrej Kiska, Slovenian Prime Minister Miro Cerar and Montenegro's Prime Minister Dusko Markovic pose for a family picture during the NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) summit at the NATO headquarters, in Brussels, on May 25.
