He’s intentionally misleading. The NATO 2% target doesn’t mean NATO members should pay 2% of their GDP to NATO, and definitely not to the US. It’s not money they “owe”.
The $2 trillion figure is likely derived from a report published in March by the American Enterprise Institute, a right-wing think tank based in Washington D.C.
The report’s authors came up with the figure based on military expenditures of NATO members between 2000 — six years before the 2 per cent target was actually formalized — and 2024. The report did not provide a dollar value for Canada’s alleged shortfall specifically.
He’s intentionally misleading. The NATO 2% target doesn’t mean NATO members should pay 2% of their GDP to NATO, and definitely not to the US. It’s not money they “owe”.
Not only that, the numbers don’t make sense
Of course he is. You can tell by the ® bedide his name.