Originally Posted by
Chesty Morgan
Defense expenditure is not the same as NATO spending. What you're suggesting is that the USA has contributed more to NATO in the last 80 years than every other member combined. Which is wrong.
I don't know about the UK, but it's a well established fact that most members of NATO have
frequently failed to meet the treaty obligation of 2% GDP spending on defense - and the US has had to make up for that. Trump brought that up during his first term - that the US couldn't afford to keep doing that - and the rest of NATO blew him off.
You didn't wake up until Putin invaded Ukraine.
The US has also contributed far more in dollar value to Ukraine that any other nation. There is a valid complaint that - as a percentage of the US GDP - it's less than some countries - but that glosses over the fact that we are still sending them more stuff.