Defense spending exceeds $ 1.5 trillion in 2025 for the first time

A report issued by NATO (NATO) stated that the defensive spending of the alliance countries will exceed in 2025 a barrier of $ 1.5 trillion, in light of the increasing American pressure to enhance European military capabilities. According to the numbers modified at 2021 prices, spending will reach about $ 1.4 trillion, including $ 845 billion allocated to the United States alone, or more than half of the alliance budget.

The report indicated that all the 32 member states managed this year to achieve the goal that was set in 2014, which is to spend 2% of the gross domestic product of defense. But only seven countries adhered to the minimum required, while others exceeded this percentage significantly, led by Poland (4.48%), Lithuania (4%), and Latvia (3.73%), to be the only three countries that reached the new level approved by NATO leaders at the Hague Summit last June, and to spend 3.5%of the domestic product on defense. The new goals will reshape the European security structure and strengthen the armed forces on the continent, pointing to its efforts in recent months to mobilize American obligations towards collective defense. At the level of European countries, Germany leads the list in terms of the size of defense spending, as it is expected that its spending will double to 162 billion euros annually within four years. This development comes in light of major strategic transformations The world is witnessing, amid the continuous war of Ukraine, the escalation of tensions with Russia, and an upcoming historical summit in Alaska, US President Donald Trump, with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin.