Ministers from NATO’s member states will meet in Brussels on Wednesday and Thursday to discuss their support for Ukraine’s war effort, as well as their own commitments to spend 2% of gross domestic product (GDP) on defence. Wednesday’s meeting, officially, is a US-coordinated gathering of Ukraine-supporting allies and not of NATO itself. Thursday’s event is a NATO ministerial meeting proper. The discussions at NATO headquarters in Brussels have been overshadowed by former US president Donald Trump, who on Saturday told supporters at a campaign rally that he would “encourage” Russia “to do what…