Nearely five months into Donald Trump’s second term, members of NATO have agreed to an ambitious spending surge of spending 5% of their economic output on defense. But agreeing is one thing –paying for it is something else.
The pressure is already showing, especially in Italy, where Minister of Defense Guido Crosetto said that NATO had surpassed its relevance.
“NATO no longer has a reason to exist. The Atlantic Ocean was once the center of the world. Now the entire world is at the center. We should have relationships across the whole world, he said ahead of the NATO summit that concluded last week in the Netherlands, where Trump successfully pushed NATO allies to increase their investment in defense spending from 2% to 5% of Gross Domestic Product.
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Author: Joe Weber
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