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To: Joe Boucher

Your point is valuable and Very much appreciated.
I had no idea it was this bad, as Mr. Trump alluded to:

These NATO countries are not spending their fair share on defense -

http://money.cnn.com/2016/07/08/news/nato-summit-spending-countries/

all countries are expected to chip in. NATO’s official guidelines say member states should spend at least 2% of their GDP on defense.

Of the 28 countries in the alliance, only five — the U.S., Greece, Poland, Estonia and the U.K. — meet the target.

The rest lag behind. Germany spent 1.19% of its GDP on defense last year, France forked out 1.78%.

Iceland, which doesn’t have its own army, spends just 0.1% of its GDP on defense, according to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development.

Five other countries spend less than 1%, according to NATO’s estimates for this year: Canada, Slovenia, Belgium, Spain and Luxembourg.


33 posted on 10/08/2016 3:32:31 PM PDT by MarchonDC09122009 (When is our next march on DC? When have we had enough?)
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To: MarchonDC09122009

So the U.S>A> should have to pull the load?
What, is N.A.T.O. similar to the U.N.?
Seems so when you look at the finances.


41 posted on 10/09/2016 2:30:15 AM PDT by Joe Boucher (Go Trump, Give em hell BABY.,)
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