Should the U.S. defend other NATO countries that maintain low military defense budgets relative to their GDP?
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is an intergovernmental military alliance formed by 28 countries in 1949 after the Second World War. To join NATO each member country pledged to spend at least 2% of their GDP on military spending and defense and defend each other against threats from any non-member country. At the NATO Summit of 2014, each member agreed on a goal of spending 2% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) on defense by 2024. Member nations further agreed to devote at least 20% of defense spending on major new equipment and associated Research and Development. As of 2020,…
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Response rates from 21.5k Texas voters.
54% Yes |
46% No |
43% Yes |
37% No |
11% Yes, and refusing to defend other NATO countries sets a dangerous precedent for the balance of global power |
6% No, we should not defend any NATO country that spends less than 2% of their GDP on military defense |
3% No, and we should withdraw from NATO |
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@8JCJLWV4yrs4Y
Yes, but should strongly encourage such nations to increase their support for NATO
@8XHGB7H3yrs3Y
Yes but demand they pay their fair share
@547W2M24yrs4Y
"Defending" each other is how wars are started. Hell no.
@5495QKW4yrs4Y
No, but add a clause that ensures a "tax" or reparation is made to the US from those countries that need defending (and under 2%) should they need the US military for defense or aid.
@548HSP84yrs4Y
We should not be expected to fund countries who prosper but do not fund their own defense -- why should we bear the cost when they can afford to do so?
@548YD534yrs4Y
No country deserves a free ride. Each country has a reasonable responsibility to defend and protect its citizens. But failure of a government to reasonably defend and protect its citizens doesn't absolve other countries from a moral responsibility to protect and preserve life to the best of their ability.
@5485KZ24yrs4Y
Yes, upon the condition that a lien (of sorts...) is placed on that country, resulting in a gained equitable interest to the People of the U.S. Maybe even going to so far as being a fund of mutual benefit, to the US and the country being protected. This could be practical if that country is better off spending their own budget on something which would bring more benefit to that country, thereby increasing a potential return to the US. Especially since the US has so much invested in its military already.
@9D3RPBQ2yrs2Y
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@9CJ6CB61Y
No their statement refers to the thought that NATO was starting WW3, which is false, alongside the fact that one of the two is creating the fighting forces, and it’s not NATO.
@Patriot-#17761Y
It's a generalisation based on dear experience, sir, dear, dear, experience.
@9CJ6CB61Y
Experience that I share, but I don’t view the problem to be their own laziness, I view the problem to be what perpetuates it in the first place, and the far back roots of this issue.
@9CJ6CB6
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Trump is planning to pull the United States out of NATO.
@DejectedBureaucr4t1Y
It would seem some bad actors in our world want WWIII.
While Putin does his best to destabilize the Middle East. Trump will do his best to destabilize the entire West.
NATO is the only thing that has kept the West safe from invasion since it’s implementation in 1949.
@ProportionalValentina1Y
Net beneficiary of all this is China. For the time being anyway.
@DejectedBureaucr4t1Y
They sure are. It's been claimed they're moving away from antagonistic Wolf Warrior to something more diplomatic and professional.
They have come somewhat near huge uprising at times the last year or two with previously unheard of mass protests too.
Biden Could Return Nuclear Weapons To Ukraine
@7J7VLMC4MO
Jesus christ that demented old fuck is desperate to start a nuclear war before he goes
@9749DN74MO
I think you're a massive pussy who would roll over and act like a dog if someone said theyd beat you up.
@7J7VLMC4MO
Hahahaha well at least we know you're a big tough guy. That much we know. Why does the thought of nuclear war give weird betas a massive erection?
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Biden Could Return Nuclear Weapons To Ukraine
@7YJCV2L4MO
Lmfao, I laced up my boots when I was 16 years old, went to military school, the college at 16, then the United states marine corps at 17. I've already laced up my boots son and Im not a bitch that supports rapists like you. Russia's free to leave Ukraine any day nazi.
@89LFGB9
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Swedes told to ‘prepare for war’ With Russia
@9CJ6CB61Y
Yet we still hold the largest economy on earth. I’d love to see the irony of this situation if our places were flipped.
@RebelScum761Y
In response to your assertion that allowing Russia to attack Ukraine could lead to instability that effects us, I must point out that the most lethal threat to stability our Republic faces is the unprecedented debt of $34 trillion dollars – your personal share of that is $109,000 – every last American bears the brunt of this debt, and you, as a so-called "libertarian" are proposing that rather than reducing spending at this horrible time, when we're on the brink of the worst depression in world history, that we ship hundreds of billions of dollars MORE to fund the… Read more
@9CJ6CB61Y
Our national debt doesn’t have a deadline to be paid, only a risk if it is not. We have the money to pay it, it’s called the rich population. We can reduce it overtime, but once again, just as you claim I failed to mention other parts of your argument, you failed to mention that we have made a deal to finance it because that was the terms of the past confrontation with Russia. If we are willing to leave people in a country that has not been the aggressor to lack their own civil liberties, than we are simply a “freedom-for-me-but-not-for-thee” kind of country. Peace is… Read more
@RebelScum76
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@AloofDelegate1Y
The POTUS can't unilaterally leave NATO so you can stop screeching about that nothingburger any day now.
@ThirdPartyRalph1Y
“ there won't be a peace deal due to Ukraine/Russia priorities and interests.” Ukraine is running out of soldiers. They are using middle aged men. They will have to negotiate soon
@AloofDelegate1Y
Not yet. They just passed the law that denies passport services at embassy without military registration. Which means military age men hiding abroad will have their visas invalidated.
They will fight to the last Ukrainian, and Russia is fine with it. So 2 more years or so.
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@NominationJay1Y
Remind us, How many dead Russians thanks to Biden's help for Ukraine ??
@LoyalPear1Y
In a war caused by Nato and the USA's bio labs in Ukraine! There is a reason so many of our supposed allies are looking to join Brics,
@NominationJay1Y
You know why Putin didn't invade while Trump was there ? Because for Trump, Putin had a much bigger mission, the reason why he helped him to win in 2016 = divide, weaken and destroy the USA from within. And by George, was Trump doing a good job and is still trying !
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@Patriot-#17766MO
Imagine if Russia created a military alliance with Canada, Mexico, Cuba, Argentina, Brazil, and just about every other country on the Continents of North and South America, called the Continental American Treaty Organisation. Imagine we wanted to join this organisation, but they openly derided, disparaged, and excluded us, for some unknown reason. Then, imagine that all of these countries in CATO became openly hostile and exclusionary towards us, but in Canada, a pro-American leader was democratically elected. Russia reacted by sowing the seeds of rebellion and anarchy and staging a violent… Read more
@LibertarianBrett6MO
It's true that Yeltsin expressed interest in NATO cooperation, but let’s be clear: Russia never made a formal application to join the alliance. Yeltsin himself was inconsistent—while he spoke of cooperation, he also pursued policies that alarmed NATO members, like the brutal war in Chechnya and meddling in neighboring states. Russia’s political instability, economic collapse, and military aggression under Yeltsin made NATO members wary of integrating such a volatile state into a defensive alliance.
Also, NATO is a mutual *defense* pact, not an aggressive one. It doesn… Read more
@Patriot-#17766MO
Russia’s political instability, economic collapse, and military aggression under Yeltsin made NATO members wary of integrating such a volatile state into a defensive alliance.
Then if NATO was consistent, it wouldn't allow Zelensky's one-party dictatorship that has cancelled elections, instituted comprehensive conscription programs that have cost tens of thousands of innocent people's deaths, banned 11+ opposition political parties, controls a total monopoly over the Ukrainian media, and is relentlessly persecuting the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, to join NATO. But in truth… Read more
@LibertarianBrett
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