remember when only 3 NATO members spent 2% of GDP on defense?
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Date: July 10th, 2018 5:49 PM Author: Booooooom (Pederastrian)
wtf are you talking about, retard?
they need us much more than we need them, and Donny boy has almost TRIPLED the number of countries who are contributing what they had PLEDGED to
or are you some cuck who suggests that we let Europeans freeload for another century?
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4021726&forum_id=2#36400009) |
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Date: July 10th, 2018 8:28 PM Author: loans originated on or after July 1, 2018,
That is the fucking point. Our money contributed to democracy got us prestige.
We have a President who gives two fucks about democracy, and our prestige, and, thus, power has declined.
But, hey, fuck those faggots. PAY YOUR SHARE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4021726&forum_id=2#36401243) |
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Date: July 11th, 2018 11:33 AM
Author: .;:..;:.;.:.;.,,,..,.:,.;....;,;;;..;,..,
I would like Obama too if he continued to let me screw the US over. Oh yes, Obama was the best!
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Date: July 10th, 2018 5:51 PM Author: A Confederacy of Pumos
cr if not for all that money we spent Europeans might constantly bash and belittle America at every opportunity
*blank stare*
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4021726&forum_id=2#36400028) |
Date: July 10th, 2018 5:52 PM Author: an entire campus of indelibles hippopotami
i think it's really NOT common knowledge that these countries have literal treaty obligations to contribute the 2% amount, which they completely ignore.
Trump is 100% right here. He has every right to criticize supposed allies for flouting treaty obligations.
i think this is one thing he could improve his domestic communication on.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4021726&forum_id=2#36400038) |
Date: July 11th, 2018 11:41 AM Author: michael doodikoff
want to get MAF about this topic?
The recent uptick in defense spending by NATO’s European members hardly compensates for the decades of decline that preceded it. From 1985 through 1989, the alliance’s European members spent an average of 3.3 percent of GDP on defense. That fell to 2.7 percent for 1990-1994, 2.2 percent for 1995-1999, and 1.9 percent for 2000-2004. By 2009, the average had fallen to 1.7 percent, and then fell to its low point of 1.45 percent in 2015. This year’s projected growth will only raise that figure to 1.46 percent of GDP — an indicator how much further the European allies must go to recover lost ground.
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In 1990, the then 14 European members of NATO spent around $314 billion
on defense collectively. In 2015, the alliance’s now 26 European members
are expected to spend around $227 billion on defense.3
So while European
membership in NATO has nearly doubled since 1990, defense spending
by Europeans has gone down by 28 percent since then.
According to the International Institute for Strategic
Studies, Germany’s defense spending has fallen by 4.3
percent since 2008 alone. In the same period, the United
Kingdom has reduced its defense spending by 9.1 percent
and Italy by 21 percent.4
This has led to a sharp drop in
military capabilities in bigger and more exposed NATO
member states, and it has made the already-uneven burden sharing in the alliance
even more lopsided.
And in effect, the dependence of European NATO allies on the United
States has further increased since the end of the Cold War, not decreased. As a
percentage of GDP, defense spending by European allies fell from an average
of 2 percent in 1995–1999 to 1.5 percent in 2014, while that of the United
States went up from 3.1 percent to 3.4 percent in the same period.5
In 1995,
U.S. defense expenditure accounted for 59 percent of overall NATO defense
spending; in 2015, the rate is expected to be above 70 percent. It is true that not
all U.S. defense spending is dedicated to security in Europe—NATO’s original
remit—yet it is clear that European NATO allies have fallen further behind on
the issue of financial burden sharing in the alliance.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4021726&forum_id=2#36404740) |
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