NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte's approach of buttering up the US president was initially thought successful, but one by one, US leaders have said no—starting with Keir Starmer, then President Merz in Germany. That unified front of going along with Trump to keep him onside has been undone, because even doing that doesn't guarantee results. The major plans to pull US fighter jets out of Europe show appeasement hasn't worked. So we'll see a less than united front, and the communique will be closely parsed for signs the coalition has fallen apart.