{"id":70387,"date":"2017-02-16T11:02:15","date_gmt":"2017-02-16T16:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=70387"},"modified":"2017-02-16T11:02:15","modified_gmt":"2017-02-16T16:02:15","slug":"mattis-warns-nato-allies-to-pay-for-their-own-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=70387","title":{"rendered":"Mattis warns NATO allies to pay for their own defense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=55287\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-55287\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/James-Mattis1-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-55287\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/James-Mattis1-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/James-Mattis1-494x333.jpg 494w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/James-Mattis1.jpg 621w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>US Secretary of Defense James Mattis warned our fellow NATO members that they need to pay a more proportionate amount for their own defense, according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/articles\/mattis-nato-members-must-boost-defense-spending?utm_source=Sailthru&#038;utm_medium=email&#038;utm_campaign=EBB%202.16.17&#038;utm_term=Editorial%20-%20Military%20-%20Early%20Bird%20Brief\">Military Times<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Echoing a demand made repeatedly by President Donald Trump, Mattis said NATO must adopt a plan this year that sets milestone dates for governments to meet a military funding goal of 2 percent of gross domestic product. <\/p>\n<p>The Pentagon chief called it a &#8220;fair demand&#8221; based on the &#8220;political reality&#8221; in Washington. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No longer can the American taxpayer carry a disproportionate share of the defense of Western values,&#8221; Mattis told the alliance&#8217;s 27 other defense ministers, according to a text of his remarks. &#8220;Americans cannot care more for your children&#8217;s future security than you do.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s a sentiment that is coming to the public decades late.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Secretary of Defense James Mattis warned our fellow NATO members that they need to pay &hellip; <a title=\"Mattis warns NATO allies to pay for their own defense\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=70387\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mattis warns NATO allies to pay for their own defense<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55287,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[237,188],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-big-pentagon","category-reality-check"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/55287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}