Trump Assails NATO Allies for Refusing Iran Military Campaign

At the July 7–8 NATO Summit in Ankara, President Trump attacked European members for declining to join U.S. military strikes on Iran, specifically calling Spain "hopeless." The rebuke came while Washington was conducting those strikes in real time. Trump simultaneously dismissed ongoing diplomacy with Tehran as a "waste of time." European reluctance to enter the Iran campaign has exposed deeper alliance friction over burden-sharing and U.S. strategic direction.