During a meeting of NATO Ministers’ Ukraine Defense Contact Group, newly appointed Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth supported President Donald Trump’s calls for European allies to raise their defense spending to a minimum of 5% of their GDP, rather than the current target of 2%.
He said that the latter amount is “not enough” for adequate defense investment.
Hegseth emphasized that the U.S. “remains committed to the NATO alliance and to the defense partnership with Europe. Full stop. But the United States will no longer tolerate an imbalanced relationship which encourages dependency.”
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