The administration of new American president Donald Trump has pledged to put pressure on European allies until some indicators are reached.
The United States of America will require allies – North Atlantic Alliance countries – to increase NATO costs to 5% of GDP. The United States will have the same cost. On Saturday, February 1, the New York Post wrote a reference to the US president advisor to national security Mike Voltz.
According to him, Trump is “perfectly correct” when it asks allies to invest more in defense.
“Now, when the threshold is the biggest conflict since World War II, Europe is the time to show its commitment to our alliance, increasing our costs at least 5% of GDP. We will continue to conduct direct and explicit Talking well to force NATO members to increase our portion of the burden, ”Volts added.
The President’s special representative, according to special missions, Rick Grenell also noted that “NATO is dangerous to crack without paying a fair part of his obligations.”
Note that in 2014, NATO countries agreed to increase defense costs to 2% of GDP. However, to this day, eight countries have not reached the target.
Currently, US costs in NATO are 3.08% of GDP. If Trump could add them to the indicated five percent, that would mean further NATO financing of more than $ 600 billion.
As reported, this year 23 of NATO’s 31 countries will spend at least 2% of their gross domestic defense product.
New Vid CORRESPONDENT.NET On the telegram that whatsapp. PIDS Insialle Our Channel https://t.me/KorresPondentNet Ta WhatsApp
Source: korrespondent
I am David Wyatt, a professional writer and journalist for Buna Times. I specialize in the world section of news coverage, where I bring to light stories and issues that affect us globally. As a graduate of Journalism, I have always had the passion to spread knowledge through writing.