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Nobody's paying 2% of their GDP "to NATO," not the US, not anybody else. NATO's entire budget is less than €2.4 billion. The agreement is for NATO member nati
by zuminator 7y ago
Nobody's paying 2% of their GDP "to NATO," not the US, not anybody else. NATO's entire budget is less than €2.4 billion. The agreement is for NATO member nations to aim to move toward spending at least 2% of their GDP on defense by 2024. So spending money on a EU-wide army would be one method of attaining that goal.
- Fjolsvith 7y ago"The United States has met the target, and dedicated 3.36 percent of GDP (around $664 billion, according to NATO figures) to military spending in 2016." [1] 1. https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/patrick-goodenough/us-pays-2214-nato-budget-germany-1465-13-allies-pay-below-1 https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/patrick-goodenough/us-p...
- zuminator 7y agoI didn't state otherwise. In fact,the US has spent over 3% of its GDP on defense for over 15 years. However, only a portion of that is spent in Europe. And a tiny fraction of that is spent on NATO. Let's not conflate national defense budgets with the NATO budget with the overall cost of the defense of Europe. They're all totally different things.
- m0zg 7y agoIf US were to withdraw from NATO, a significant chunk of this money would have to come out of Europeans' taxes. As a US taxpayer paying six figure taxes, I'm completely in favor of reducing the part of my tax that does not go towards protecting the United States.
- Fjolsvith 7y agoThe article I submitted states that the 3.36% of GDP spending is spent by the US on NATO. If you a source that states otherwise, please provide a citation.