Rubio: We can no longer help NATO members
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Rubio has responded to Friedrich Merts’s remarks whose party in Germany, the Christian Democratic Union, recently won the early parliamentary elections. Mortus claimed that NATO was endangered because of Washington’s indifference to European security.
“NATO is not in danger,” the US Secretary of State said. The only thing that puts NATO is that we have allies in NATO who have a very small army or have little capability because they have not spent any money on it for the past 5 years!
He added that, according to the current US government, that some Western European countries would spend only one to 5.5 percent of their GDP in the field of defense, according to the current US government.
“We can no longer continue to subsidize and help,” said senior American diplomat. These are rich countries, especially in western Europe; They have a lot of money and have to invest in their national security that they don’t!
US President Donald Trump has said that the current 5 % targeting of NATO’s current 2 % defense costs that challenged some members is still small and should increase to five percent. During his campaign, the US president claimed that if NATO members “do not pay their bill”, the option of leaving the coalition is definitely on the American table.
According to World Bank data in year 2, the United States spends about 2.5 percent of its GDP in the military field, according to World Bank data. However, NATO members, on average, earn 2.5 percent, less than 5 %, to the military and defense industry.