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    Trump claims victory over US allies at stormy NATO meeting

    by Eli Stokols, Los Angeles Times Jul 12, 2018 6 minutes

    BRUSSELS - President Donald Trump declared a much-disputed victory at the annual NATO summit Thursday, after throwing it into crisis by forcing an emergency session suggesting the United States could leave the nearly 70-year-old alliance and then suddenly dropping his demands that allies immediately spend more on their militaries.

    As the summit closed, the president held an unexpected news conference and took credit for having secured firmer commitments from all 28 other member nations to increase their spending on defense, in fairness to the United States.

    "They're going to up it at levels that they've never thought of before," Trump said.

    Other leaders, however, denied that they'd made any significantly new pledges beyond what they'd agreed to in 2014, under some pressure from President Barack Obama. "No increase in spending," Italy's new prime minister, Giuseppe Conte, said of his country's military budget.

    French President Emmanuel Macron, in his own closing news conference, said NATO members

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