Trump Wants US to Stay in NATO, but Others Need to Do More: Vance

The United States would stay in NATO if former president Donald Trump is reelected, said his running mate, Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), but he added that other members of the military alliance need to pay their fair share.
“Donald Trump wants NATO to be strong. He wants us to remain in NATO,” Vance said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” in an interview aired on Sunday. “But he also wants NATO countries to actually carry their share of the defense burden.”
In 2014, in the wake of Russia’s invasion and annexation of Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula, NATO members each agreed to allocate at least 2 percent of their GDP to defense within a decade….