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Just happened to have this readily availableThe Conservative wrote:So Trump is calling out the imbalance in NATO funding, that Germany isn't carrying it's fair share... heaven forbid someone who dips their toes in the pool pay their fare share.
So if we dropped it by 1.61 it be on par for the 2% requirement? I'm game...C-Mag wrote:Just happened to have this readily availableThe Conservative wrote:So Trump is calling out the imbalance in NATO funding, that Germany isn't carrying it's fair share... heaven forbid someone who dips their toes in the pool pay their fare share.
Yep, and I'd go farther than that. I would tally up our excess payments to NATO for the last decade and tell NATO in their new glass house that we consider ourselves paid up for the next X number of years that those over payments cover us. Put that money straight into our own infrastructure, or if it needs to be spent on security.................... we could pick something else like the border wall or military facility deferred maintenance.The Conservative wrote:So if we dropped it by 1.61 it be on par for the 2% requirement? I'm game...C-Mag wrote:Just happened to have this readily availableThe Conservative wrote:So Trump is calling out the imbalance in NATO funding, that Germany isn't carrying it's fair share... heaven forbid someone who dips their toes in the pool pay their fare share.
Does that include all US defense spending? The cost for the nuclear arsenal is under the department of energy now. I think VA is beside as well. What else?C-Mag wrote:Just happened to have this readily availableThe Conservative wrote:So Trump is calling out the imbalance in NATO funding, that Germany isn't carrying it's fair share... heaven forbid someone who dips their toes in the pool pay their fare share.
Why would you conflate overall military spending with what is spent on NATO? The Americans don't spend it all on NATO, far from it, contrary to the jib-jabber-blubbering of American goober hayseeds, the United States only spends $460 million on the actual NATO budget, what a country spends on its defense department and what a country actually contributes to NATO; not the same thing.Hastur wrote:Does that include all US defense spending? The cost for the nuclear arsenal is under the department of energy now. I think VA is beside as well. What else?
460 Million on NATO, and we get what out of it...? A wagged finger at because we don't play ball? Cripes... give me a break.Smitty-48 wrote:Why would you conflate overall military spending with what is spent on NATO? The Americans don't spend it all on NATO, far from it, contrary to the jib-jabber-blubbering of American goober hayseeds, the United States only spends $460 million on the actual NATO budget, what a country spends on its defense department and what a country actually contributes to NATO; not the same thing.Hastur wrote:Does that include all US defense spending? The cost for the nuclear arsenal is under the department of energy now. I think VA is beside as well. What else?
There's nothing in the Washington Treaty which stipulates that the Americans must send their entire military to support NATO, quite the opposite in fact.
Go ahead and take a break, goober, take a lap too, there's no country in NATO which hasn't met its obligations to the NATO budget, regardless of what they spend overall, if you want to be the first NATO country not to meet its obligations to NATO, go right ahead, NATO is not a country, nobody answers to NATO, it's just a headquarters in Brussels, big whoop.The Conservative wrote:460 Million on NATO, and we get what out of it...? A wagged finger at because we don't play ball? Cripes... give me a break.