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Mushy Wording Lets NATO Commit to Trump’s Military Spending Demand NATO leaders agreed on Wednesday to a goal of spending 5 percent of their gross domestic product on defense. But that doesn’t mean each member nation will actually spend that much. The difference lies in a bit of mushy diplomatic language that lets the NATO secretary general, Mark Rutte, claim that he delivered on a spending demand issued by President Trump. The brief and unanimously approved communiqué that NATO issued after leaders wrapped up their annual summit says that “allies” — not “all allies” — had agreed to the 5 percent figure. Mr. Trump floated that target, up from the current 2 percent, early this year in a push to have Europe and Canada spend more on their militaries instead of relying on the United States for security. At the time, few believed it was realistic, given that nine of NATO’s 32 member countries still had not reached the 2 percent spending pledge that was set in 2014. Several were balking at the 5 percent commitment as recently as Wednesday, emboldened by an assertion last weekend by Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez of Spain that “we’re not going to do it.” Mr. Sanchez said Spain would spend 2.1 percent of its G.D.P. on defense, “no more, no less,” because that was all his country needed to
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