BRUSSELS: US Defence Secretary James Mattis bluntly warned NATO allies Wednesday that Donald Trump’s administration would “moderate its commitment” to the transatlantic alliance unless members met their spending pledges.
Mattis’s no-nonsense message to his counterparts in Brussels follows years of calls by Washington for allies to spend at least two percent of their GDP on defence, a goal that only a handful meet despite agreeing on it at a summit in 2014.
It packs extra weight as it comes after Trump has said US help for NATO members — already worried by the threat from Russia in the east — might depend …read more
Source: Geo TV
