Eloy
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- Sep 9, 2016
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Trump is mistaken about member states being required to pay 2% of their GDP on defense. The 2% figure is an approximate guide, not an obligation. There are no past payments due as the 2% is a target to be met by 2020, three years from now. Lastly, I do not know anything about American businessmen and how they might like to push their weight around but I am pretty sure that if anyone wants to get European government leaders to agree to a plan then it is best done diplomatically, behind closed doors, and not in a public scolding on their home soil.What past obligations?I'm watching Trump at NATO, as the nations leaders line up and he tells them to their faces that every nation needs to pay their 2% and their past obligations. Calls out the "thousands and thousands" of immigrants "pouring in" and calls out the challenge to take on terror and yes, even Russian threats.