Congress Plays Hardball to Keep American Troops Overseas
The U.S. should not prop up NATO allies who are unwilling to invest in their own defense.
July 9, 2020|
12:01 am
Doug Bandow
The Europeans collectively have 11 times the GDP and three times the population of Russia. Germany has the world’s fourth largest economy, alone two and a half times the size of Russia’s.
Yet the Europeans affect to be helpless, vulnerable to attack by a revived Red Army. No European government spends much more than two percent of GDP on the military, not even the Baltic States and Poland, which squeal the most frequently and loudly about evil hordes massing just over the border. At least France and Great Britain have competent forces, though not directed at Moscow. Germany devotes just 1.38 percent of its GDP to a military far from battle-ready. Italy and Spain barely bother to maintain armed forces. And then there are nations like Luxembourg.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/congress-should-serve-americans/
