“I also intend to designate Brazil as a major non-NATO ally, or even possibly — if you start thinking about it — maybe a NATO ally. I have to talk to a lot of people, but maybe a NATO ally.”

In a bipartisan 357-22 vote, the Democrat-led lower chamber sent the Senate the NATO Support Act, which would prohibit the use of federal funds to withdraw from the 70-year-old alliance.

There are few things that President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia desires more than the weakening of NATO

While the text of the tweet is cryptic, Trump appeared to be warning that Germany may invade France again without NATO and U.S. protection.

The U.S. ambassador to NATO set off alarm bells Tuesday when she suggested that the United States might “take out” Russian missiles that U.S. officials say violate a landmark arms control treaty.

Trump’s threat to sanction Turkey for detaining an American pastor risks pushing the relationship between two key NATO members to its breaking point.

Russian authorities took the opportunity to show off some of the new weaponry Putin boasted in March would render NATO defenses "completely useless."

The president continued, “Montenegro is a tiny country with very strong people.”

Trump returned to undermining NATO on Tuesday by singling out the alliance's smallest and newest member, Montenegro

"You encouraged espionage against our people. You are willing to spout the Putin line, sign up for his wish list: break up NATO, do whatever he wants to do," Clinton said. "You continue to get help from him because he has a very clear favorite in this race."

All he really needs to make his meeting with Mr. Trump a success is for it to take place without any major friction

...threatening to pull out if America’s allies don’t boost military spending then praising the alliance as a “fine-tuned machine.”

Hailing himself, again, as a “stable genius,” he took “total credit” for persuading his allies to increase military spending beyond established markers — a claim that was nearly immediately undercut by at least one European leader.

Trump’s blowup at the NATO summit is exactly what Russia hoped would happen.

Sarah Huckabee Sanders offered an explanation for Kelly’s reaction ... “[Kelly] was displeased because he was expecting a full breakfast and there were only pastries and cheese”

“Kelly looks like he wants to be anywhere but where he is”

...the drop in investment was largely because of one-off payments, such as a retroactive pay increase for service members

Trump accused Germany of being "totally controlled by Russia" due to its energy deals with Moscow

Asked if May should remain in power, Trump said, “That’s up to the people,” and he complimented her top rival, Boris Johnson.

The 97-2 vote in the Senate comes as Trump heads to Brussels.

“The president thinks he can be friends with Putin,” former national security adviser H.R. McMaster complained during his time in the White House, according to U.S. officials. “I don’t know why, or why he would want to be.”

Erdogan said Tuesday that his country’s plan to purchase Russia’s long-range missile defense system is a “done deal,” brushing aside concerns from some NATO allies.

The Sarmat is a heavy ICBM intended to replace Russia’s aging, Soviet-era missiles that form the basis of its nuclear deterrent.

Britons are taking in the disquieting information that a Novichok nerve agent, a weapon invented for use against NATO troops, was released in the quiet town of Salisbury, its target a former Russian spy named Sergei V. Skripal.

Russia is preparing to send as many as 100,000 troops to the eastern edge of NATO territory at the end of the summer

NATO member Turkey said in April it had reached a "final stage" in talks to procure the air missile defense system. Turkey will not be able to integrate the Russian S-400 into the NATO system.

“Well, I'm committing the United States, and have committed, but I'm committing the United States to Article 5”

...the president also disappointed—and surprised—his own top national security officials by failing to include the language reaffirming the so-called Article 5 provision in his speech.

After all of the hoops summit organizers reportedly jumped through to accommodate President Trump and his anemic attention span, he definitely was not on his best behavior.

"So they asked me, Wolf ... asked me about NATO, and I said two things. NATO's obsolete — not knowing much about NATO, now I know a lot about NATO — NATO is obsolete"

...he no longer considers it “obsolete,” a sharp reversal from his rhetoric on the campaign trail and during his first weeks in office.

At the same time, Mr. Trump embraced NATO — a military alliance he had previously derided as obsolete — as an effective and vital force for peace and security

An exasperated Shoigu went on to say that the administration was in such disarray, rolling back sanctions might take a year longer than planned, and abandoning NATO might actually be out of the question.

The conversation did apparently broach a subject of mutual concern to both countries — fighting ISIS — but it seems that Trump’s rants about NATO and China overshadowed the other topics.

Ukraine and NATO accuse Russia of providing troops and weapons to support separatist rebels in the country's east in a conflict that has killed 10,000 people since April 2014. Moscow denies that.