Secretary of State Marco Rubio asks NATO allies to chip in with 5% GDP

https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2025/04/03/NATO-Rubio-5-GDP-Russia-Ukraine/1231743694971/

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  5. The US doesn’t even spend 5% and weren’t they just talking about cutting that budget in conjunction with China and Russia (not that it would ever happen for 1000 different reasons)?

  6. I don’t like how USA mostly says things which are stupid and unserious. It makes diplomacy kind of boring.

    Since it’s just like: “Oh, you’re just acting like an idiot and saying things you know are stupid. We have actual work to do, so you just coming here to act like a dipshit is disruptive and boring.”

  7. I called it. It was 2% then 3% then 4% and now 5%

    Once we reach one he will move the post

  8. After Trump’s economic warfare, and actual threats against the territorial integrity of another “ally” ?

    I’m pretty sure they’re a little dubious on the viability of the current version of NATO.

  9. Correction: He wants us to spend 5% of our GDP buying US arms, which are going to skyrocket in price due to tariffs.

  10. NATO was set up to counter Russia. If a member of NATO is on the Russia’s side, is NATO still relevant anymore?

  12. This is just another one of Trump’s scams because he knows that the only way to reach 5% on short notice is buy from the US.

  13. He can get them to chip in faster by saying the faster they chip in, the faster the U.S. is able to leave NATO /s

  14. I wonder what stipulations the US would put on Canada for that 5% spending.

    I mean they’d cry like little bitches if we spent that 5% on a nuke.

  15. This is one of many things I’ve never understood about Trump: this nonsensical belief about defense spending and NATO. He seems to believe that if other NATO members don’t meet their defense spending targets that the US somehow makes up the difference. Correct me if I’m wrong, but that’s not how it works, right?

  16. What about all the money Musk saved?  Wasn’t that supposed to be trillions?

  17. This is likely yet another BS predicate to justify Trump withdrawing from NATO. For all its faults, NATO has helped bring stability to the world for more than 70 years. Abandoning it is an invitation for yet more conflict.

  18. 5% of GDP means that USA wants to be subsidized by EU. US spends 3.5% of its own GDP…

  19. NATO asks Rubio to have the USA start respecting nations sovereignty.

  20. Canada should happily increase its defense spending by buying european made arms. Cant trust those yanks anymore

  22. So the US doesn’t even spend 5% on the military. Yet more hypocrisy from the Trump administration.

    Also I bet if every NATO country does hit this goal they will still be pissed because it will be by buying European hardware. Trump was already pissed about that. 

  24. This administration is really overestimating how much the world needs the US. This isn’t the 1980’s. Europe should just ghost us honestly, we’re being dicks.

  26. To Marco Rubio I say, go Fu$k yourself. I’m all for spending upto 5% ofvour GDP to defend ourselves and Nato. The problem lies in the financial kaos Trump has left our country in. If the Tariifs keep up and more economic pressure is added as Trump promised to do until Canada agreed with the ridiculous and insane 51rst state plan.
    As it is, we could see negative growth of 2% or more which is a more significant amount than it sounds, both from a recovery standpoint and the crap show Trump has turned the world into. Our economy could be faster altogether.
    You don’t fu$k your longest standing allie over worse than your enemies, cost them billions of dollars, continue to threaten our sovereignty, and then expect to get what you want. We should have seen great growth this year, instead the next few years are going to be he’ll.
    Trump is a pile of garbage, a truly disgusting man. We often hear about his 6 bankruptcies, what we dont hear about are the people that lost everything when the believed and invested in Trump. People lost their homes, their families and some even lost their lives. The list of damage is as long as a book.
    So, what an A-hole thing to start asking about when you still haven’t pulled the knives from Canadas back.
    We are in for some serious pain as a country, it’s going to get very bad. There’s a bit of comfort knowing where Trumps tariffs plans lead. He will be remembered as the biggest mistake snd worst president of all time. As things get worse you can expect Trump to double down again snd again. He’s not capable of recognizing a mistake and he could care less about most of his own family let alone the average American. What an a-hole group of idiots you guys have gor in charge.

  27. WTF? Aren’t you guys leaving NATO? Why are you still here bro?

  28. And zero percent of that should be on US equipment or hardware

  29. Trump has pretty much given the middle finger to NATO and sided with Putin. Why would they listen to Rubio?

  31. Note that the United States spends way less than 5% of GDP on defense. Arbitrary and hypocritical.

  33. “Hey. We just boned your economy and the global economy because we don’t understand how numbers work. Give us money for NATO (which we don’t support).”

    Quality governance.

  36. As a US citizen, no NATO member can or should trust anything coming from this child like administration.

    Logic, facts, tradition, honor and respect has been destroyed by Trump and any idiot who has supported this buffoonery.

  37. Maybe the EU and Others should charge the United States for providing them with military bases that are a great forward and strategic benefit to the United States. This Administration is a total embarrassment.

  38. So you start a recession and then demand they spend more money on military stuff.

    Great idea.

    Soft power is what you need to get other countries to do things – the US had tons of soft power a few months ago, now it doesn’t.

    Geniuses.

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