Poland Backs Trump’s Call to Up NATO Defense Spending to 5 Percent of GDP – EVOL

The eastern European nation is already the member state closest to hitting that target, with Warsaw currently contributing 4.12 percent to defense spending.

Poland has backed President-elect Donald Trump’s proposal that NATO member states up their defense spending to 5 percent of GDP.

Warsaw has thrown its weight behind the president-elect’s plans to raise the level of contribution demanded by the defensive organization, as currently, just 24 out of 32 nations meet the current spending level of 2 percent of GDP.

The Eastern European country, which shares a border with Ukraine, said that 5 percent should be the goal, even if it were to take some NATO states a decade to reach it.

Polish Defense Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz told the Financial Times: “If we could afford to go into debt to rebuild after Covid, then we must surely find the money to protect ourselves from war.

“I know this is not a view shared by all, but Poland has a different opinion. We need to remember that there are some big European countries whose opinion was not always the right one, and that in relation to Russia they were wrong.”

On Jan. 7, at a press conference at Mar-a-Lago, Trump, who was also

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