NATO Summit Meeting Averted Attack By Questionable Person I May Know

 Nadene Goldfoot                                          

Remember the grand NATO Summit meeting that all the Presidents in  the world attended in Turkey in Ankara ?  It was held on July 7-8, 2026 at Bestepd Presidential Compound in Ankara, Turkiye.  President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was the host leader though the chair was NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte . "Mark Rutte is a Dutch politician who has served as the 14th secretary general of NATO since October 2024. He previously served as prime minister of the Netherlands from 2010 to 2024 and leader of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy from 2006 to 2023".                                         

 The President of Turkey did a lot of work on that airport to make it accessible to all those flying in, including Donald Trump of the USA.  In fact, Recep got into a lot of trouble with his own people for how he expanded it and the cost of it.

Well, The Israeli government had shared the intelligence of the potential Iranian assassination plot with the CIA, one of the officials said.

 However, the agency, as well as some other Trump officials, viewed the Israeli intelligence skeptically.

 Some within the CIA had raised questions about the credibility of the intelligence, as well as whether Iran even had such capabilities to carry through such an attack, the official told CNN.  I thought that it might be Mossad, which is Israeli Intelligence who had the information.  

They don't seem to realize that informants are all over working for free for Israel.  We do have Israelis who want to survive and help their government when they can.  They may be IDF members on leave or old ladies like me.  

This hits me like a pot of hot potatoes!  My good friend, a Syrian Jew on the lam from Syria who has already been in the prison of the former Syrian President, and now Jolani who has taken over by force, sent me a help message that he had received either accidently  in conversation or whatnot of a flight in an airplane that sounded like a plane going to Ankara on a devious mission.  My friend asked me to get it to the CIA as soon as possible, which I did.  I did not know who gave it to my friend .  

I forwarded it it to the CIA along with another agency, the FBI in Portland.  I had my CT be with me when   the FBI,  called and said they'd like to speak with me.  Now I really had the shakes, being almost 92 and never involved with spying before.   Could they have been speaking to Mossad?                        

That piece of the puzzle was scanty but very soon my friend sent me more that I forwarded.  I was getting excited and started doing my own research.  I found a plane fitting the description I thought and sent that a message thinking...do they really do a good job?  I found one that went from France to Ankara on a regular route and thought aha!  The President of France is in harm's way.  Luckily, as it turned out, he was on his way when a bomb was dropped there, to visit the President of Syria !!!!!                                

I never thought that Trump was in harm's way at all.  Was I ever surprised at how the CIA got him out of Turkey!!!

Trump used an elaborate cover-up scheme to get out of Turkey by using another plane.  How clever of the CIA.  Iran most likely was quite disappointed.  Was the target the French President, Emmanuel Macron or Trump?  We will never know.  

Resource:

https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/13/politics/iran-threat-turkey-plane

Why NATO Charges USA More In Dues Than Other 31 Members

 Nadene Goldfoot                                                       

       Mark Rutte Secretary General of NATO;  (Dutch:; born 14 February 1967) is a Dutch politician who has served as the 14th secretary general of NATO since October 2024. He previously served as prime minister of the Netherlands from 2010 to 2024 and leader of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD) from 2006 to 2023. Serving a total of almost 14 years, Rutte is the longest-serving prime minister in Dutch history.                                                                                            

    "The task ahead is clear: to turn Allied commitments into concrete results. Increased investment, industrial production and continued support for Ukraine. All of this contributes to a stronger NATO and greater security for all of us."

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte

22 May 2026                   

NATO?  What does it do for us?  NATO serves as a critical force multiplier for the U.S., projecting global power, protecting trade, and deterring adversaries. According to defense analysis from the Belfer Center, the alliance significantly benefits the United States in several key ways.  They are having a Summit Meeting in Ankara, Turkey tomorrow and the next day.  All 32 countries will be represented there.  Actually, it's happening already.  5:24 PM, and here on the West coast is only 7:25AM.  They are 10 hours ahead of us.  

Trump is not the first President to complain about paying NATO.  Obama also complained.  While the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), a political-military alliance comprised of 28 member countries throughout North America and Europe, has been a key force in assisting in the fight against terror, even President Obama, has criticized allies that don't pay their "fair share."  In his day there were only 28 members, too.  The last four countries to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) are:

• Sweden (Joined March 7, 2024)
• Finland (Joined April 4, 2023)
• North Macedonia (Joined March 27, 2020)
• Montenegro (Joined June 5, 2017)

NATO does not charge the United States "dues" or membership fees; rather, direct contributions to the alliance’s common operating budget are determined by a cost-share formula based on each nation's Gross National Income (GNI).

Today, they have military personnel (soldiers ) available

Total amount from 32 nations:3,240,410  In reserve: 2,233,850

From USA:                                1,315,600  In reserve:    797,200

Direct Funding (Common Budget): NATO’s central operating budget (around €5.3 billion) pays for shared assets like headquarters, communications, and joint infrastructure. The U.S. and Germany each contribute roughly 14.9% of this total. Under a 2019 payment formula designed to equalize burden-sharing, the U.S. share was reduced from its previous 22%

Indirect Funding (National Militaries): The vast majority of NATO-related spending is indirect, as members independently fund and maintain their own national militaries. The U.S. defense budget makes up the largest absolute amount, largely because the U.S. acts as a global superpower with responsibilities extending far beyond the European alliance. 

The 2% Guideline: NATO members have a voluntary guideline to spend at least 2% of their national GDP on their own domestic defense.

As I look at it, the USA is the largest country to protect:

Made up of 50 states:  The United States covers approximately 3.8 million square miles (9.8 million square kilometers), making it the third-largest country globally by area. It stretches about 2,800 miles from east to west and features an incredibly diverse geography, including mountain ranges, deserts, and coastlines across its 50 states.

Resource:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Rutte

https://www.nato.int/en/what-we-do/introduction-to-nato/funding-nato

Will Trump Attend NATO July Meeting?

Nadene Goldfoot                                        

Nato - the North Atlantic Treaty Organization - was formed in Washington DC in 1949 by 12 countries. The founding members were Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, the UK and the US.

On July 7–8, leaders from all 32 member states are expected convene in the Turkish capital, including U.S. President Donald Trump, whose threats to withdraw from NATO and reduce U.S. troop levels have cast uncertainty over the alliance’s future.  Turkey has also unveiled a new VIP airport, converted from a former military airfield, specifically to host NATO leaders.

Nato's main purpose was to block expansion in Europe by the Soviet Union - a group of communist republics dominated by Russia which was dissolved in 1991. It also aimed to prevent the revival of nationalist militarism in Europe and encourage European political integration. It has grown and now has 32 nations belonging.  

 It is the organization that Donald Trump has complained about because he said the USA paid their dues and kept it going but the others weren't.  Well, who were those countries, anyway?    NATO’s main political and administrative headquarters are permanently located in Brussels, Belgium. Daily committee consultations and weekly ambassadorial meetings take place there . 

Twenty additional European nations have joined since 1952, with the most recent expansions including Finland (April 2023) and Sweden (March 2024). Notable countries added in previous waves include:  Germany, Greece, Poland, Spain and Turkey!  Turkey officially joined NATO on February 18, 1952, when the Instrument of Accession was signed in Ankara . The country was formally welcomed alongside Greece during the alliance's first expansion.

" President Trump views the NATO alliance as heavily imbalanced, frequently stating that the U.S. bears a disproportionate financial burden while allies fail to reciprocate militarily. Frustrated by a lack of allied support—most notably during U.S. actions involving Iran—he has increasingly embraced the idea of operating independently."

Major, high-level summit meetings involving heads of state take place in different rotating member countries depending on the year. 

The Ankara Summit is said to have had their mood changed.  What had happened to do that?  European allies are less focused on appeasing Trump and more focused on smoothing the transition to a Europe-led alliance.                     

İsmail Alper Coşkun, Turkish Ambassador: Turkey’s stake in NATO membership and in keeping the alliance afloat is high, given NATO’s enduring centrality to Ankara’s security, defense, and deterrence interests and the way it anchors Turkey in the transatlantic security debate. Turkey’s contributions to NATO and its long-standing desire to host a summit reflect this calculus.

Yet Ankara is also adapting to a changing U.S. posture and evolving security landscape, including a reordering in the Middle East. As Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan noted, no one, including Turkey, can operate on autopilot any longer with a single alliance, namely NATO, as its sole organizing principle. Similarly, Defense Minister Yaşar Güler recently argued that the era of absolute reliance on a single alliance is over. So for Turkey, this is increasingly an era of supplementing NATO with other security mechanisms.

Israel is having problems with Turkey.  Relations between Israel and Turkey have plunged to historic lows as the Gaza war and overlapping regional ambitions in Syria, the Eastern Mediterranean, and the Horn of Africa fuel military and diplomatic standoffs. Syria: Following Israeli airstrikes near Turkish deployment sites in Syria, the two nations established deconfliction communication, though Ankara warns that Israeli military operations increasingly threaten Turkish security. 

The diplomatic schism reached a boiling point in late June 2026 when Israel's Cabinet voted to officially recognize the WWI-era Armenian genocide. This was just announced to many American Jews.   Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan sharply condemned the move, labeling Israel a "murder network" committing genocide in Gaza, while Israeli officials cited Turkey’s hostile rhetoric and  and regional aggression as the catalyst for the historic pivot in policy. 

NATO Summits: These are major meetings of Heads of State and Government . They are held irregularly at important junctures in the alliance and rotate locations . For example, the summit was held in The Hague, Netherlands, while the subsequent summit was hosted in Ankara, Türkiye (Turkey).  The last official NATO Summit meeting was held in The Hague, Netherlands, on June 24–25, 2025 . 

Key focuses of this meeting included increasing defense spending, boosting industrial capacity, and supporting Ukraine.

NATO summits for the 32 member nations do not follow a fixed schedule but are instead held on an ad-hoc basis whenever required by the evolving security and political landscape . While they were previously infrequent, the heads of state have gathered more frequently in recent years, including an annual rhythm. The alliance is currently debating moving away from annual summits, considering a shift to biennial (every two years) or event-driven summits to prioritize longer-term planning and reduce political tensions.

Resource:

https://www.facebook.com/reel/794151476677269

https://apnews.com/article/turkey-nato-summit-tight-security-c2423abfaa605dbfb8228972047c1dbf

https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-898999

https://www.nato.int/en/what-we-do/introduction-to-nato/nato-summits