Europe Will Never Keep Its Promises to Trump on Defense
'[It's] something that no one really thought possible,' the president said at the North Atlantic Treaty Organization summit in the Hague last month, when members of the alliance promised to increase their defense spending to 5% of gross domestic product by 2035, from the current average of below 2%. 'They said, 'You did it, sir. You did it.' Well, I don't know if I did it, but I think I did.'
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