Yet again, you are stating that US Defense expenditure is actually NATO expenditure but that is not correct, is it?
If the US left NATO it would save its only the $567 million (in 2024 numbers) that is a direct NATO contribution.
It is like paying $50 per month on gym membership but try to include the cost of your house and car as part of the fee because you need both those to use the gym!
If you left the gym you would save only the $50 per month. You would still need the house and car.
That is what I have been saying. At this point, the primary thing we need them for is the basing. When they denied us that for this conflict they opened up a can of worms. Trump will have to lock up basing and transit rights for all of NATO whenever we want.
As compensation for not supporting the US, we should get Greenland and Diego Garcia.
What is even more dishonest by OP, though looking at his post history you can only make one assumption what his goal is and if he has a job what it is.
That trillion dollars gets spend in the US. a majority of that trillion is salaries and benefits for soldiers and all the items we buy and pay for goes to salaries in America for those. And all those materials get get purchased to build those things? Guess what salaries to those company employees too.
you can bitch and moan about spending all you want but that money is basically a giant economic subsidy.
Also just about all the trillions we have spend in the last decade has been for our own poor choices in the middle east and nothing to do with Nato or Europe.
Yet again, you are stating that US Defense expenditure is actually NATO expenditure but that is not correct, is it?
If the US left NATO it would save its only the $567 million (in 2024 numbers) that is a direct NATO contribution.
It is like paying $50 per month on gym membership but try to include the cost of your house and car as part of the fee because you need both those to use the gym!
If you left the gym you would save only the $50 per month. You would still need the house and car.
That is what I have been saying. At this point, the primary thing we need them for is the basing. When they denied us that for this conflict they opened up a can of worms. Trump will have to lock up basing and transit rights for all of NATO whenever we want.
As compensation for not supporting the US, we should get Greenland and Diego Garcia.
What is even more dishonest by OP, though looking at his post history you can only make one assumption what his goal is and if he has a job what it is.
That trillion dollars gets spend in the US. a majority of that trillion is salaries and benefits for soldiers and all the items we buy and pay for goes to salaries in America for those. And all those materials get get purchased to build those things? Guess what salaries to those company employees too.
you can bitch and moan about spending all you want but that money is basically a giant economic subsidy.
Also just about all the trillions we have spend in the last decade has been for our own poor choices in the middle east and nothing to do with Nato or Europe.