re: Would the US be better off backing out of NATO and the UN?

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Sigh.

How is it that people still do not know how "NATO funding" works?

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3% of GDP for each nation. Up until Trump took office, how many countries in NATO where contributing that amount? ONE! Care to guess who that was? On top of that, we currently have 84000 troops at bases in Europe! We spend a shite ton of taxpayer dollars to protect other countries from a fricking non-threat! Russia can't take piss ant Ukraine in 3 years! If the European countries are scared Putin is coming for them, let them band together without us for their own protection. Instead, they put little towards their own defense, all the while standing behind us, and reaping the rewards of OUR tax dollars being spent in THEIR countries! For fricks sake, Great Britian only has about 75000 active duty troops. For comparisons sake, Alabama has 14000 in the Alabama National Guard. 5 million people in Alabama, 65 million in Great Britain!

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3% of GDP for each nation.

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No. It is not. That is each countries own budget for their own military. That does not "fund" NATO.

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On top of that, we currently have 84000 troops at bases in Europe!

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Because we want them there. You think we wouldn't lease the same bases even if we weren't in NATO? We would still have alliances with Germany, Poland, Italy, the UK, the Baltic States, etc. etc.

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Instead, they put little towards their own defense, all the while standing behind us, and reaping the rewards of OUR tax dollars being spent in THEIR countries!

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That is what the NATO defense spending is. Each country spends on its own military.

NATO does have common budgets for military infrastructure, joint bases, intelligence, administration, etc., and each country contributes to that proportionally to their GNP. The US and Germany are the highest, at 16% each. UK, France, Italy are right behind.

If European countries decide to start taking their national security seriously then the US can possibly help train some of our friends in Europe. The only countries doing that are France and England. We can’t take those countries seriously because their national defense spending is a joke.