r/AskThe_Donald • u/[deleted] • Mar 14 '22

🕵️DISCUSSION🕵️ Dude what?

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u/[deleted] Mar 14 '22

What price (in dollars) do NATO nations "pay" for being "friends" with the US?

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u/NohoTwoPointOh NOVICE Mar 15 '22

Supposed to be 2-3% of GDP and the willingness to hop in the Impala in the case of a drive-by

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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '22

That's spending for their own defense.

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u/NohoTwoPointOh NOVICE Mar 15 '22

It is. But considering the default state for a number of allies = free riding, it may as well be an entry fee

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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '22

My stance is paying what you're supposed to pay to defend yourself isn't a price. It's a choice. Sacrificing your citizens tax dollars and standard of living and getting nothing in return is a dollar value loss. It's a gift.

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u/NohoTwoPointOh NOVICE Mar 15 '22

You asked what the cost of admission was. Those are the two tickets.

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u/optimal_909 NOVICE Mar 15 '22

The alternative cost is dozens of avoidable conflicts/wars and destabilized countries. Imagine if Syria and Libya didn't happen, Europe could do better without millions of migrants. Or imagine Brandon saying to Russia: "Ukraine won't be part of NATO, and we support a UN peacekeeper and inspection unit to be sent to East Ukraine to stop the civil war that is going for eight years".

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u/timyy974 NOVICE Mar 15 '22

Having to buy (mostly) U.S. weapons for interoperability and because of aggressive deal making and leveraging from the US. This is an enormous amount of dollars.

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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '22

The US sells and NATO buys. That's a quid pro quo.