With U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson visiting NATO for the first time, Germany pushed back Friday against U.S. President Donald Trump’s repeated demands that allies increase their military spending.
Tillerson is the third Trump emissary to visit NATO headquarters in recent weeks and insist that allies show his boss the money by devising specific plans to reach a previously agreed target of spending 2 percent of annual GDP on defense.
U.S. Secretary of Defense James Mattis and Vice President Mike Pence brought the same message on separate visits in February.
But exasperation has been rising in Germany, especially after Trump marked Chancellor …read more
Source: European Voice
