{"id":1349738,"date":"2022-02-28T15:22:59","date_gmt":"2022-02-28T20:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1349738"},"modified":"2022-02-28T15:23:03","modified_gmt":"2022-02-28T20:23:03","slug":"trump-takes-credit-for-germany-meeting-natos-defense-spending-requirements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-takes-credit-for-germany-meeting-natos-defense-spending-requirements\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Takes Credit for Germany Meeting NATO&#039;s Defense Spending Requirements\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-takes-credit-for-germany-meeting-natos-defense-spending-requirements%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1349738&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2018\/06\/donald-trump-angela-merkel-7-17-ap.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Former President Donald Trump on Monday took credit for Germany finally meeting NATO\u2019s defense spending requirement, after the country failed to fulfill its obligation for years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hope everyone is able to remember that it was me, as President of the United States, that got delinquent NATO members to start paying their dues, which amounted to hundreds of billions of dollars,\u201d Trump said. \u201cThere would be no NATO if I didn\u2019t act strongly and swiftly.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cAlso, it was me that got Ukraine the very effective anti-tank busters (Javelins) when the previous Administration was sending blankets. Let History so note!\u201d Trump added.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/POTUS45?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@POTUS45<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hope everyone is able to remember that it was me, as President of the United States, that got delinquent NATO members to start paying their dues, which amounted to hundreds of billions of dollars. There would be no NATO if I didn&#8217;t act strongly and swiftly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>FULL: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NYxGYWYYCE\">pic.twitter.com\/NYxGYWYYCE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Natalie Harp (@NatalieJHarp) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NatalieJHarp\/status\/1498344800596025348?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 28, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>On Saturday, Germany <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2022\/02\/28\/trump-vindicated-germany-to-finally-pay-its-nato-spending-requirements\/\">announced<\/a>\u00a0it would finally contribute at least 2 percent of its GDP to defense spending.\u00a0\u201cFrom now on, more than 2 per cent of our GDP will be invested in our defence,\u201d\u00a0Chancellor Olaf Scholz\u00a0said\u00a0about the additional 100 billion euros that would be added to the German defense budget. Breitbart News reported:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>While Germany has increased its defence spending over recent years, it has consistently failed to reach the NATO threshold, spending just\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nato.int\/nato_static_fl2014\/assets\/pdf\/pdf_2019_11\/20191129_pr-2019-123-en.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">1.53 per cent<\/a>\u00a0on defence last year, according to NATO figures.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Germany has long been criticised for its failure to meet its NATO obligations while at the same time shipping billions to Russia in exchange for natural gas.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In 2018, Trump had criticized Germany\u2019s lack of defense spending while buying oil from the Russians.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is very sad when Germany makes a massive oil and gas deal with Russia, where we\u2019re supposed to be guarding against Russia, and Germany goes and pays out billions and billions of dollars a year to Russia,\u201d Trump said. \u201cWe\u2019re protecting Germany, we\u2019re protecting France, we\u2019re protecting all of these countries.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re paying a lot of money to protect, this has been going on for decades\u2026 it\u2019s very unfair to our country, it\u2019s very unfair to our taxpayers\u2026 these countries need to step it up, not over a ten year period, but immediately.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Follow Wendell Huseb\u00f8 on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WendellHusebo?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor\">Twitter<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>and <em><a href=\"https:\/\/gettr.com\/user\/wendellhusebo\">Gettr<\/a>\u00a0@WendellHuseb\u00f8<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Donald Trump on Monday took credit for Germany finally meeting NATO\u2019s defense spending requirement, after the country failed to fulfill its obligation for years. \u201cI hope everyone is<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1349738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1349738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1349738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1349738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1349738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1349738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1349738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}