Heâs confusing and combing different things in his rambling.
-The US has freely decided to spend 4.2-4.3% of GDP on defense spending.
-The 2014 Wales summit decided NATO countries should spend about 2% of GDP on defense. Some are, some arenât.
-The entirety, or even majority of out defense spending does not go to NATO or protecting Europe. I donât know where that statement comes from.
-European defense spending exceeded 50% during both World Wars. US defense spending never exceeded 40% during either.
I think that the President thought that by trying to bully the European countries into spending more on their militaries it would mean that they would purchase US made arms⌠completely not knowing that they have their own arms manufacturers and if they are going to spend money that they would spend into their own economy and not ours.
The first sentence is just saying that Europe needed the US to get them out of World Wars I and II successfully. That European armies alone were not able to do it.