Support us Image: NATO The liberal internationalist story has always been seductive: Democracies prefer each other, build institutions together and let shared values govern how they distribute power and resources. But this week’s NATO summit in Ankara showed that security imperatives trump liberal values in today’s geopolitics. First, let’s examine the pattern of defense spending. NATO allies gathered in Ankara to announce arms deals worth tens of billions of dollars, structured almost entirely around demonstrating to the Trump administration that Europe was finally paying its share. This was carefully calibrated to satisfy a transactional US president who has consistently subordinated values-based ideological alignment to security burden-sharing calculations. Deals announced in Ankara — including Europe’s procurement of American AMRAAM, PAC-3 and GMLRS-variant missiles — involved almost exclusively NATO allies, consolidating a transatlantic defense industrial base that keeps procurement, co-production and R&D tightly guarded within the treaty perimeter.
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