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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It should also be noted that one generic metric like percent of GDP isn't necessarily that informative.  Some countries "not meeting the target" are actually spending more per capita on defense than countries that are meeting the target.

Either way, anyone trying to claim that defense spending by constituent NATO nations is falling is absolutely wrong and deranged.[/quote]

The majority of NATO countries don’t contribute.

Expenditures by NATO increase every year; the 2% agreed upon in 2014, and which has never been met by the majority of NATO “ALLIES” is not sufficient to fund NATO.

https://www.politico.eu/article/is-there-a-war-on-big-eu-powers-miss-nato-spending-targets-again-allies/

Not even a war has succeeded in pushing Europe’s biggest powers to reach their defense spending targets.
The Continent’s largest economies all fell short of a common goal of spending 2 percent of economic output on defense, according to a NATO report published Tuesday. 
And across the entire military alliance, only seven out of 30 members spent at least 2 percent of their GDP on defense last year.

Germany: 1.49 percent. Italy: 1.51 percent. France: 1.89 percent. 
And although that amounts to billions, officials and experts warn the organization’s members will need to spend much more to assure its security. 
The figures, all NATO estimates for 2022, show that while allies have been pouring significantly more money into their militaries for years, many are still largely lagging behind an alliance spending target, set in 2014, to spend 2 percent on defense within a decade. 
Of 30 members, only Greece, Poland, the Baltic states, the United Kingdom and the United States spent more than 2 percent of their economic output on defense last year, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg’s annual report shows. 
Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas, whose country reached 2.12 percent last year according to the report, said on Tuesday that she was “quite shocked” when looking at who is and is not fulfilling the target.
“Come on, it’s not possible — I think everybody should understand, knowing and seeing what is happening in Ukraine, that we don’t have that time,” she told POLITICO.

Nevertheless, America remains NATO’s moneybags.

[color=red]While the U.S. represents 54 percent of the alliance’s economic output, it contributes 70 percent of defense expenditure, the report noted[/color].

The next-biggest spender, the U.K., amounted to about 6 percent of the alliance’s total spending, while Germany stood at around 5 percent.

https://www.politico.eu/article/is-there-a-war-on-big-eu-powers-miss-nato-spending-targets-again-allies/

Seems fair, right?[/quote]

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