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Not content with pressuring NATO allies to raise their defense spending to 2 percent of economic output, U.S. President Donald Trump proposed doubling the target.
Trump’s suggestion was informal and made in a closed-door session of a North Atlantic Treaty Organization summit in Brussels on Wednesday, but it did little to ease tensions at an already charged meeting.