‘THIS IS NOT FAIR!’ Donald Trump RAGES at EU Leaders Ahead of NATO Summit in Brussels

• To be fair to the Europeans: my understanding is that this is part of the US dollar hegemony. America gets to pay for it using money created out of nothing while the Europeans focus on the economy.
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• ‘THIS IS NOT FAIR!’ Donald Trump RAGES at EU Leaders Ahead of NATO Summit in Brussels
  by REBECCA PERRING, https://www.express.co.uk/
  DONALD Trump has sent a furious warning to the EU and NATO ahead of a crunch summit in Brussels this week saying the military alliance “benefits Europe far more than the United States” and demanding the bloc contributes more.
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  The US President laid into his allies over their military spending on the eve of the NATO summit, which is likely to raise concerns about the future of the 28-member coalition.
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  Donald Trump has repeatedly hinted he may withdraw US support for NATO altogether, calling it obsolete and a waste of American taxpayers’ dollars. He said many countries were “nowhere close” to their commitment to spend two percent of GDP own defence.
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  Writing on Twitter, he said: “The United States is spending far more on NATO than any other Country. This is not fair, nor is it acceptable. “While these countries have been increasing their contributions since I took office, they must do much more. “Germany is at one percent, the US is at four percent, and NATO benefits.”
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  He also again attacked Brussels for having a trade surplus with the US adding “big Trade Barriers on US goods. NO!”
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  Germany is also under pressure from Mr Trump to pay its fair share as, according to NATO statistics, it only spends 1.2 percent of GDP on defence – considerably less than the two percent mutually agreed by the alliance’s member states.
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