One NATO Member Thinks Trump Is Right
- Lithuanian Defense Minister Karoblis speaks in interview
- Government may push defense expenditure to 2.5%/GDP by 2020
President Trump: We Strongly Support NATO
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U.S. President Donald Trump was correct to single out NATO members that aren’t pulling their weight, according to one Baltic nation that’s planning to eclipse the military alliance’s spending target in the coming years.
Reaching NATO’s expenditure goal of 2 percent of gross domestic product benefits the whole Western world by enhancing security, according to Lithuanian Defense Minister Raimundas Karoblis. The country of 3 million people plans to meet the threshold next year, and may push further, to 2.5 percent by 2020, he said in an interview in Vilnius, the capital.