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Robert Tait in Washington

US allies apprehensive after capricious Trump changes tune at Nato summit

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Donald Trump at the Nato summit in Ankara this week. Photograph: Stoyan Nenov/Reuters

Donald Trump’s relationship with Washington’s Nato allies is nobody’s idea of a happy marriage.

But the US president’s volatile performance at the western military alliance’s annual summit in Ankara this week seemed extreme, even by Trumpian standards. As commentators sought to explain what happened, their usually capacious stock of Trump-fitting cliches was at risk of exhaustion.

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