My tweet featured in this Newsweek article:
"Not sure people working on multilateral cooperation realize how big an impact the US shift on NATO could have. Many hoping Europe will step up to fill US funding gaps, but the US just told Europe to spend $644bn more on defense...
"Not sure people working on multilateral cooperation realize how big an impact the US shift on NATO could have. Many hoping Europe will step up to fill US funding gaps, but the US just told Europe to spend $644bn more on defense...
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That $644 billion number comes from back of the envelope math on what European NATO members would need to reach 5% of GDP spending on defense, based on this Peterson Institute data
https://www.piie.com/blogs/realtime-economics/2025/trumps-five-percent-doctrine-and-nato-defense-spending
Let's be clear that there's *no need* to make these tradeoffs. Tax can bring in new revenue, and turning back on Global South will harm support for European priorities
https://timhirschelburns.substack.com/p/what-ukraine-and-nato-mean-for-the