NATO 'Must Remain United', Says Italy PM Meloni

Meloni — the European leader Trump most courted — now says she has not spoken with him recently after being punished for refusing to back the Iran war. Lead with the split: the Pentagon's leaked threat to suspend Spain is not isolated, it's fracturing even Washington's friendliest continental ally. The reader should see the mechanism — US alliance membership is being rewritten as conditional on backing specific wars, and Italy/Spain/UK are being sorted into a compliance hierarchy. Follow-up to yesterday's Pentagon-Spain punishment story.