Does Donald Trump have a point after all? That's become a commonplace phrase among defence and security experts, who – despite deploring the rest of Trump's agenda, fear he will destroy American democracy as we know it, and believe that he is a threat to multilateral organisations – think that he is right to say that many of the nations of Nato are letting the United States foot the bill for their defence commitments.
One civil servant recently described Trump as “incidentally correct”: his motivations and worldview are, on this narrow subject, leading him to the correct conclusion, which is that most of the nations of Nato are taking liberties with defence spending.
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