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Trump’s Ukraine Strategy at NATO Is America First in Action

President Donald Trump just showed NATO what America First foreign policy looks like in practice: America leads, Europe pays its fair share, and allies are expected to take the lead in defending their own continents.

At this week’s NATO summit in Ankara, Trump announced after meeting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy that the United States would grant Ukraine a license to produce Patriot missile interceptors. The announcement came as Russia intensified missile and drone attacks and Ukraine faced an acute shortage of Patriots—its most important defense against Russian ballistic missiles.

This is not Joe Biden’s blank-check Ukraine policy repackaged. It is a fundamentally different model.

For years, the Biden administration asked American taxpayers to shoulder a disproportionate burden while wealthy European governments issued statements, held summits, and promised to do more. Trump is turning that model on its head.

Under NATO’s Prioritized Ukraine Requirements List (PURL), allies and partners purchase urgently needed American military equipment for Ukraine rather than expecting Washington to foot the bill. The program has become critical to Ukraine’s air defense, including Patriot interceptors.

The final NATO declaration from Ankara proves the larger point. Alliance leaders........

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