While Trump was not the first US president to raise concerns about European defense spending, he was certainly the most vocal and direct.
lørdag 18. januar 2025
Trump Already Concentrates Minds On Defense – Analysis
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte addressed the European Parliament last week with a clear message: Europe isn’t spending enough on defense and the new US president will not like it. With Donald Trump’s return to the Oval Office, the issue of defense spending will once again become one of the top issues Europe must grapple with. In his first term, Trump emphasized the lack of defense spending by NATO’s European members and often criticized them for freeloading on the US. He even suggested, incorrectly, that European countries owed the US back payments, threatened to pull out of the alliance if they did not increase spending and even suggested that the US would not protect countries that did not meet spending targets.
While Trump was not the first US president to raise concerns about European defense spending, he was certainly the most vocal and direct.
While Trump was not the first US president to raise concerns about European defense spending, he was certainly the most vocal and direct.
