Poland has backed President-elect Donald Trump’s proposal that NATO member states up their defense spending to 5 percent of GDP.
Warsaw has thrown its weight behind the president-elect’s plans to raise the level of contribution demanded by the defensive organization, as currently, just 24 out of 32 nations meet the current spending level of 2 percent of GDP.
The Eastern European country, which shares a border with Ukraine, said that 5 percent should be the goal, even if it were to take some NATO states a decade to reach it.
Polish Defense Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz told the Financial Times: “If we could afford to go into debt to rebuild after Covid, then we must surely find the money to protect ourselves from war….