JD Vance suggested the US’s support for NATO could be pulled if Europe tries to regulate X as free speech debate rumbles on

US-NATO tensions have been back under the spotlight in the run-up to the US election in November.

Trump has long urged fellow NATO members to increase their defense spending.

In February, the former president even suggested that the US could let Russia attack non-paying NATO countries, much to the White House’s ire.

NATO defense ministers agreed in 2006 to commit at least 2% of GDP to funding the alliance, but a few countries — including Canada and Spain — have fallen below this level.

According to NATO estimates, Poland is set to be the biggest NATO spender in 2024, allocating 4.12% of its GDP. Estonia comes in second place at 3.43%, while the US sits in third at 3.38%.

For its part, NATO has acknowledged that there’s been a historic imbalance between US military spending and that of non-US allies.

In July, a post on its site said: “The volume of US defence expenditure represents approximately two thirds of the defence spending of the Alliance as a whole.”

“However, this is not the amount that the United States contributes to the operational running of NATO, which is shared with all Allies according to the principle of common funding,” it added.