Yeah, no. The US reduced spending, that's true, but it never dropped nearly as low as so many European countries. > by the 2010s it was back falling in the US,

Yeah, no. The US reduced spending, that's true, but it never dropped nearly as low as so many European countries. > by the 2010s it was back falling in the US, too. Because of the wars in Iraq/Afghanistan winding down, no? > It actually changed since Russia invaded Ukraine in 2014 for the non-US members of NATO (which was also the trigger for the NATO defense spending target.) It changed for the US after the 2022 escalation (US defense spending as a share of GDP declined between 2014 and the 2022 escalation.) Not really, no. The US took Russia's 2014 invasion more seriously than most of Western Europe did.