US Presses Europe on Defense Spending as NATO Reassures Asia
🛡️ NATO — Europe gets the bill while Washington manages two theaters at once. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: With CENTCOM pinned to the Gulf, US pressure on European defense spending is force allocation math, not diplomacy. Every NATO ally under 2% GDP is a gap Washington needs filled to sustain simultaneous deterrence. The Asia reassurance rider is the tell: the US won't choose between theaters — it expects allies to cover one while it runs the other.
