Trump Threatens Spain With Tough Trade Deal Over Defense Spending
By: McKinnon de Kuyper | Published: 2025-06-25 17:43:00 | Source: www.nytimes.com
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Trump Threatens Spain With Tough Trade Deal Over Defense Spending
President Trump laid into Spain during the NATO summit at The Hague on Wednesday, after it broke ranks with the other member states and declined to increase its military spending to 5 percent of its economic output over a decade.
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“Together, allies have laid the foundations for a stronger, fairer and more lethal NATO. NATO leaders agreed on The Hague defense investment plan, and this will fuel a quantum leap in our collective defense.” “Oh, I think Spain’s terrible — what they’ve done. No, I do. They’re the only country that won’t pay the full up. They want to stay at 2 percent — I think it’s…
