Trump Slams Allies in favor of Putin (again)...

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(07-10-2018, 06:40 PM)fredtoast Wrote: I am saying that counting the entire US military budget ($600 million) to NATO spending is incorrect.  That money is spread out all across the world.

I suppose all NATO countries should spend 2%, but we are not paying as big of a share on NATO as some people claim.  And even if the other NATO countries all spent 2% we would not get anything back.  We would still spend just as much worldwide as we do right now.

We pay around 22% of the direct funding to NATO, The problem comes with indirect funding. For instance Germany pays the second most in NATO direct funding, but it only commits 1.2% of their GDP to Military Spending. So that may explain why France and England were the 2 countries to join us in the bombing of Syria. Germany couldn't afford the gas.