NATO Is Still a Sick Puppy

The Ankara summit only kicked the can down the road. Walt-Steve-foreign-policy-columnist20 Stephen M. Walt By Stephen M. Walt, a columnist at Foreign Policy and the Robert and Renée Belfer professor of international relations at Harvard University. NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte and U.S. President Donald Trump meet during the annual NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey, on July 8. NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte and U.S. President Donald Trump meet during the annual NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey, on July 8. Win McNamee/Getty Images Geopolitics NATO United States Russia Europe Stephen M. Walt July 13, 2026, 5:30 AM The 2026 NATO summit is now history, though it wasn’t exactly historic. If you were hoping for a rekindling of common purpose and a renewed sense of trans-Atlantic solidarity, you