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Originally Posted by Stephen
Trump's statements on NATO and who pays what are very silly, when each country spends an amount using an agreed cost share formula derived from the Gross National Income of member countries. So of course the US will pay more than the UK etc.
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Unusually, he has a point as not all NATO countries are spending the 2% of GDP they have agreed to. These figures come from the 2023 Nato annual report.
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Poland 3.92%
United States 3.24%
Greece 3.05%
Estonia 2.89%
Lithuania 2.75%
Finland 2.46%
Latvia 2.37%–
UK 2.28%
Hungary 2.07%
Slovakia 2.05%
Denmark 2.00%
France 1.90%
Bulgaria 1.87%
Norway 1.80%
Croatia 1.75%
Albania 1.72%
North Macedonia 1.70%
Germany 1.66%
Netherlands 1.63%
Romania 1.60%
Turkey 1.58%
Montenegro 1.55%
Czech Republic 1.53%
Portugal 1.48%
Italy 1.47%
Slovenia 1.33%
Canada 1.33%
Spain 1.24%
Belgium 1.21%
Luxembourg 1.01%
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