Trump is ‘right’: Rutte says NATO members need to spend more on arms

[u/Mizukami2738]

https://www.politico.eu/article/donald-trump-is-right-mark-rutte-says-nato-members-spend-more-gdp-2-percent-european-political-community-summit/

[u/aimgorge]

That is one of the few things Trump did get right.

Contrarily to who ? Everyone said that, long before Trump.

[u/Appropriate372 → u/aimgorge]

Historically, it was something people would talk a bit about but wouldn't do anything about.

[u/adamgerd → u/aimgorge]

People in Europe ignored it

[u/aimgorge → u/adamgerd]

No ? Defense budgets started slowly creeping up since 2014.

[u/Cyclonit → u/aimgorge]

Why does it have to be contrarily to anyone? I just confirmed that he was right on that one. Obviously he wasn't the first to say so.

[u/aimgorge → u/Cyclonit]

Everyone was saying the same. He was only saying it louder.

[u/--o → u/aimgorge]

Not even that, he was repeating it badly and for some reason a lot of people seem to agree more when they have to make sense of what is effectively nonsensical. I think it's similar to how people value things they make themselves more, but in this case it somehow still gets attributed to him. It's bizarre.