Much of the annual summit in The Hague seemed catered to the impulses and worldviews of the Republican president.

President Donald Trump and his top national security officials spent much of their day in the Netherlands working to rebut an early intelligence report that assessed weekend US strikes against Iranian nuclear facilities did not destroy the core components of the country’s nuclear program and likely only set it back by months.

The high-stakes meeting of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), the world's biggest military alliance, ended in The Hague with quite a few changes, most of which were favourable to US President Donald Trump.