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Debt, taxes or cuts: NATO’s 5 percent solution

At NATO’s recent Hague summit, the security allies committed “to invest 5 percent of their GDP annually on core defence requirements as well as defence- and security-related spending by 2035,” a target long pushed by President Donald Trump. But increased defense spending by NATO members can only come from three places: tax revenue, cuts in other government spending or borrowing. [...]