OPINION
Trump Saves NATO
Katie Pavlich | Jun 27, 2025
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When President Donald Trump first entered office in 2017, he proposed a radical idea: NATO members should be held accountable to the alliance and pay the two percent in defense spending they agreed to.
"The NATO of the future must include a great focus on terrorism and immigration, as well as threats from Russia and on NATO’s eastern and southern borders. These grave security concerns are the same reason that I have been very, very direct with Secretary Stoltenberg and members of the Alliance in saying that NATO members must finally contribute their fair share and meet their financial obligations, for 23 of the 28 member nations are still not paying what they should be paying and what they’re supposed to be paying for their defense," Trump said during a speech at NATO in 2017.
"This is not fair to the people and taxpayers of the United States. And many of these nations owe massive amounts of money from past years and not paying in those past years. Over the last eight years, the United States spent more on defense than all other NATO countries combined," he continued. "We should recognize that with these chronic underpayments and growing threats, even 2 percent of GDP is insufficient to close the gaps in modernizing, readiness, and the size of forces. We have to make up for the many years lost. Two percent is the bare minimum for confronting today’s very real and very vicious threats."
The demand was met with breathless pearl-clutching from the media. Many European leaders panicked about how they would reprioritize their budgets, heavily bogged down by social programs, to meet the demand. Trump was accused of trying to destroy the alliance, when in reality, he was giving America’s allies across the Atlantic some much-needed tough love and constructive criticism.
Now it’s 2025, Trump is back, and after just five months in office, has secured a five percent defense spending commitment from 32 of 33 NATO partners.
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