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[–] grte@lemmy.ca 19 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

It's not especially challenging if we simply refuse. 2% is fine.

Of course the idea is that 5% of our budget goes to American weapons. Just another shakedown attempt from the wannabe gangster president.

[–] elgordino@fedia.io 12 points 2 days ago

The crazy thing is, it’s not 5% of the budget it’s 5% of GDP. Usually a government budget is somewhere around 20% of GDP. So spending 5% of GDP on NATO would mean about 25% of all government spending going on the military.

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

"refuse"?

That's hypocrisy, and we're not hypocrites yet, are we?