When representatives of NATO nations meet in The Hague late next month, they’re expected to dramatically hike the alliance’s defence spending target for members — the one Canada is failing to hit already.
The crazy thing is, it’s not 5% of the budget it’s 5% of GDP. Usually a government budget is somewhere around 20% of GDP. So spending 5% of GDP on NATO would mean about 25% of all government spending going on the military.
It’s not especially challenging if we simply refuse. 2% is fine.
Of course the idea is that 5% of our budget goes to American weapons. Just another shakedown attempt from the wannabe gangster president.
The crazy thing is, it’s not 5% of the budget it’s 5% of GDP. Usually a government budget is somewhere around 20% of GDP. So spending 5% of GDP on NATO would mean about 25% of all government spending going on the military.
“refuse”?
That’s hypocrisy, and we’re not hypocrites yet, are we?