America’s Relationship with NATO is Dead || Marco Rubio Pledges to ‘Reexamine’ NATO Membership After US Denied Access to European Military Bases for Iran War
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by https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/
The latest statements coming out of Washington are the result of a structural imbalance that has existed for decades. President Donald Trump is now openly considering pulling the United States out of NATO, calling the alliance a “paper tiger” and questioning its value after European allies failed to align with US policy beyond their immediate interests.
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To understand this, you have to start with the numbers because they expose the reality far better than any political statement. NATO’s total defense spending is estimated at roughly $1.5 to $1.6 trillion, yet the United States alone accounts for about 62% of that total. That means Washington is effectively funding the majority of the alliance while the remaining members collectively contribute less than half. In 2025, US defense spending approached $980 billion, dwarfing every other member combined.
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Europe, by contrast, has only recently begun increasing spending after years of underinvestment. EU defense expenditures reached about €381 billion in 2025, which equates to roughly 2.1% of GDP, barely meeting the long-standing NATO guideline. Trump threatened to withdraw from the lopsided alliance in his first term, warning that Europe was relying on American taxpayers to subsidize its security.
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For years, most NATO members failed to meet even the 2% GDP target agreed upon in 2014. It was not until after the Ukraine conflict escalated that spending began to rise meaningfully. Even now, only a handful of countries, such as Poland and the Baltic states, exceed 3% of GDP, while many others hover just above the minimum threshold.
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The Scarlet Woman and the Scarlet Beast
17 Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and talked with me, saying [a]to me, “Come, I will show you the judgment of the great harlot who sits on many waters, 2 with whom the kings of the earth committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth were made drunk with the wine of her fornication.”
3 So he carried me away in the Spirit into the wilderness. And I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast which was full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns. 4 The woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls, having in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the filthiness of [b]her fornication. 5 And on her forehead a name was written:
MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT,
THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS
AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS
OF THE EARTH.
6 I saw the woman, drunk with the blood of the saints and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. And when I saw her, I marveled with great amazement.
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