There's a common fund that everyone is expected to pay into, and each country is also expected to maintain its own military to a certain standard. NATO countries agree to spend no less than 2% of their GDP on defense.
The US paid 16% of the common fund in 2021, but that bill is much smaller than the 2% per year commitment to military spending in general. Only 9 of 30 NATO countries met this commitment in 2021.
Maybe that NATO membership will fill the hole in their bellies.
Doesn't the US charge NATO members for their 'services'? I remember reading something along those lines.
Plus Finland will now have to pay for gas at elevated prices.
Feminist Finland certainly learning that 'weak men create hard times', and women are at most weak men.
There's a common fund that everyone is expected to pay into, and each country is also expected to maintain its own military to a certain standard. NATO countries agree to spend no less than 2% of their GDP on defense.
The US paid 16% of the common fund in 2021, but that bill is much smaller than the 2% per year commitment to military spending in general. Only 9 of 30 NATO countries met this commitment in 2021.
So the US OpEx was 16%, to gain unfettered access to markets and land and anything else it can put its hands on?
Sounds like a good deal.
Just one of those bad boys has got 500,000,000,000 calories.