U.S. President Donald Trump hailed a “historic… monumental win” for the United States, Europe, and “Western civilisation” as the NATO alliance agreed to his demand to equalise the burden of common defence with a five per cent of GDP floor on military spending for its members.

Speaking at a press conference before he departed The Hague in the Netherlands to return to the United States, President Donald Trump saluted a “highly productive NATO summit” and particularly noted he came away with a changed perspective on European defence.

The centrepiece for the Hague summit, the first major NATO meeting in years, is the adoption of a new floor for…

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