US EditionTrump Says US Doesn’t Have to Meet NATO Spending Goal
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US President Donald Trump calls on NATO countries to defend 5 percent of their GDP, while the US spend 3.5 percent on armaments.
Trump says US exempt from NATO’s 5 % defence spending goal
President Trump argues the U.S. should not be required to raise its defence spending to NATO’s proposed 5% of GDP target, claiming America already pays the lion’s share. His stance comes ahead of the upcoming summit in The Hague.
Trump says US doesn’t have to meet NATO spending goal
President Donald Trump said Friday that the U.S. shouldn’t have to abide by the same defense spending standards as the rest of NATO — potentially antagonizing leaders from the rest of the alliance days before he’s to meet with them in The Netherlands. Trump has long demanded that NATO states spend 5 percent of their GDP on defense but has never said if the U.S. should be included in that or not. The U.S. is currently at 3.4 percent. “I don’t thi…
US President Donald Trump believes that all countries should comply with the new NATO standard of 5 percent, except the United States itself. According to him, the US has spent enough on NATO in the past. Trump finds Spain's veto against the new standard unacceptable.
Donald Trump stated yesterday that the requirement for NATO member countries to spend 5% of their GDP on defence should not apply to the United States, stating that Washington has...
According to United States President Donald Trump, the United States should not be required to meet the new goal proposed by NATO - to spend at least five percent of the country's gross domestic product (GDP) on defense.
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