US President Donald Trump may refuse to protect NATO countries not fulfilling his obligations to waste defense. It reports about it NBC news With reference to sources.
According to the comparison of the TV channel, Trump is currently considering the possibility of changing the format participating in Washington Washington into NATO. Specifically, he suggested “priority for alliance members, who spend a certain rate of GDP defenses”.
Therefore, the United States cannot protect NATO members to attack if he does not reach the desired threshold of defense costs, NBC News sources said.
In addition, Trump discussed with his group an option in which Washington will mainly perform military exercises within NATO with partners' spending states of the percentage set up of their GDP defense.
The White House made it clear to European allies that the United States could reduce military presence in Europe. One of the options is to relocate a part of the US military in the region for them to focus or deploy around NATO countries to increase their defense costs to a certain percentage of their GDP, their TV channels added.
Recalling that Trump has repeatedly criticized the member states of the alliance for spending less than 2% of their GDP defenses. According to him, this is “an additional burden for the United States.” In this regard, he declared his intention from NATO countries to increase defense costs to 5% of GDP.