British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has pledged to meet the new NATO target of 5% of a country’s Gross Domestic Product on national security by the 2035 deadline.
Amid his musings about potentially annexing Greenland and invading Panama, President-elect Trump also seemed to float a major policy change on defense spending at his rollicking Tuesday press conference. Now U.S. allies have to ask: Was that part of the trolling, or was he serious?
Donald Trump is right that some of Nato’s European members are essentially freeloaders. That these countries are holding talks about increasing the alliance’s target for defence spending to 3 per cent of GDP at its annual summit next June comes too little, too late.
Amid ongoing war in Ukraine, NATO members are spending billions more on defense.
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has frequently lambasted other NATO countries for failing to fulfill their financial obligations toward the military alliance. But when he returns to the White House in January, he could find a lot less resistance.
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