Washington DC: On Thursday, United States President Donald Trump statement came that Washington remained committed to NATO and chided the member nations, asserting that they would need to do a better job of sharing costs. In his words "We will insist on fair burden-sharing with our allies. We`re protecting all of these wealthy countries, which I`m very honoured to do, but many of them are so wealthy they can easily pay us the cost of this protection. So you`ll see big changes taking place,"
He said that, "We`re going to be with NATO 100 per cent, but as I told the countries, you have to step up," Trump further said, "Very unfair when Germany pays 1 per cent and we`re paying 4.3 per cent of a much larger GDP. We cannot be the fools for others. They set a two per cent goal. Very few pay that. But they should be much higher than that,"
Trump has constantly rallied against its NATO allies for not meeting the two per cent target and has insisted on spending at a "faster pace."Slamming Germany for spending "1 per cent" of its GDP on defence spending.
Trump has long incited the NATO allies while arguing that the US is shouldering more of the cost burden than it should, to enhance their military spending." In 2014, NATO members agreed to come toward spending at least two per cent of their GDP on defence by 2024.
