NATO summit concludes with unresolved rifts across transatlantic alliance

The two-day NATO summit wrapped up on Wednesday in Ankara, Türkiye with the release of the Ankara Summit Declaration which emphasized a collective push to ramp up defense investment. But beneath the show of unity, layers of division between the United States and its European allies, as well as rifts among the European states, have yet to be resolved.

Divisions also remained over the alliance's target of raising defense spending to 5 percent of GDP, with several European countries having yet to come up with concrete plans for meeting the target.