NATO Secretary Jens Stoltenberg at a press conference with Joe Biden last week:
“Across Europe and Canada, NATO Allies are, this year, increasing defense spending by 18%, and 23 allies are going to spend 2% of GDP or more on defense. It is also important for the United States to know that a lot of this money is actually spent here in the United States. Allies are buying more and more equipment from the U.S. So NATO is good for U.S. security, but NATO is also good for U.S. jobs.”
So American taxpayers send our money to Europe and they spend some of that money on the U.S. military-industrial complex and we’re supposed to be grateful?
By this logic, if we could just get Putin to invade Hungary or Poland, we could reach full employment here in the U.S.
And by the way, we spend closer to 3.5% of our GDP on defense and the Europeans with the bear right in their own backyard are bragging about 2%?