President Donald Trump, in his first term, was a bit of a thorn in the sides of our NATO allies, mostly because of his insistence that the rest of NATO stop looking at the United States and seeing a big piggy bank; Trump insisted that NATO members should pony up the two percent of GDP that is required by treaty.
But the world is an uncertain place of late, and Trump seems to be a bit concerned about that. Now he’s prompting the rest of NATO to bump their defense spending to five percent of GDP.
Donald Trump wants NATO countries to increase their defense spending to more than double the current target, the Financial Times and the Telegraph reported.
According to the reports, Trump’s team has told European officials that the U.S. president-elect expected NATO allies to increase their defense spending to 5 percent of national gross domestic product after his…
