This week saw a big change for Europe, Nato and UK security. It was agreed that Iran was not a mainstream Nato and Europe pre-occupation. Donald Trump has sucked the oxygen out of the headlines at the Nato summit in Holland by being referred to as the “big Daddy” – not to his evident displeasure – by the unusually oleaginous secretary general Mark Rutte.
Both men got what they wanted. Trump got the European allies to pledge more money for their own defence – though notions that they would pony up 5% of their various GDPs are the stuff of fairy tales.
