US Defense Secretary Mark Esper argues that NATO members should pay up because there can’t be “free riders,” but then goes on to say US alliances are all about “mutual respect and common values.” It can’t be both, so which is it?
“There can’t be any free riders. There can’t be any discount plans. We’re all in this together,” Esper said on Friday at an event hosted by the Council on Foreign Relations, referring to nineteen NATO members who are still failing to spend two percent of their gross domestic product on “defense.”
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