Of all the issues that I am most squarely aligned with Trump, his approach to NATO is right on. Time for them to pay up and for us to administer a little tough love to these allies who are fine with putting the US at the tip of the spare in defending them.
Of all the issues that I am most squarely aligned with Trump, his approach to NATO is right on. Time for them to pay up and for us to administer a little tough love to these allies who are fine with putting the US at the tip of the spare in defending them.
The big issue is that hardly any of the NATO countries are even budging 2% of GDP for defense as CURRENTLY required.
Germany is only at 1.3% and that includes a lot of accounting gimmicks supposedly. So you’ve got the wealthiest country in Europe spending less than 1% of GDP on defense while they live comfortable under our nuclear umbrella. THAT is the main issue Trump is getting at, IMO. Rightly so, he says the gravy train and abusing the goodwill of the U.S. is over.