The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was founded on April 4, 1949, as a political and military alliance to counter the Soviet Union’s influence in Europe. Its original 12 members ...

However, as of 2023, the most recent year of available data, only 11 of the 31 NATO members with standing militaries were adhering to that guideline. (This is what would happen if NATO were to ...

That is why, if confirmed, I will work to advance a policy of peace through strength, by ensuring that all NATO members meet a minimum defense spending level of 5%, thereby ensuring NATO is the ...

"The focus here of all 32 [NATO members] is how to defend NATO territory against the Russians, our long-term threat, which will be there even after, I hope there will be a deal on Ukraine," Rutte ...