Will NATO miss Donald Trump? For better, for worse Some of those changes have been at least partially positive, even if they left scars on the alliance's psyche. For example, while Trump did not, as he frequently misstates, prompt a reversal of allies' decline in defense spending — that already happened in 2014 — it is credible that nations boosted their military budgets faster toward the NATO goal of 2% of GDP in an effort to avoid his public haranguing. "He also got [allies] talking about China," Taylor notes. "That's something that was never on NATO's agenda. And whether it would hav...