I am talking about the fact, that if Estonia buys one F35, they have already spent over 1/5 of the year budget of 2% of GDP. Hence it is pretty easy for a country like Estonia to meet the requirements of 2%.
Okay lets do real numbers..
Russia spends between 3 to 4% of its GDP on the military according to western intelligence agencies and experts. That is about 70 billion dollars.
Germany spends 1.3% of its GDP on the military and that is about 50 billion dollars. 2% spending would take that to 74 billion dollars... more than Russia.
France spends 1.7% of its GDP on the military and that is around 62 billion dollars. So for France to reach 2% they need to spend around 70 billion dollars.
That is 2 members alone of NATO that spend together more than Russia, and are not meeting the 2% threshold that has been agreed. If they did, Germany alone would spend more.
Those are real numbers, not arbitrary bull**** % of GDP numbers.
So again why should any nation spend money on the military just to get to a magical 2% number that is always going up (pretty much), when there is no real need? Fact is that the NATO alliance outspends Russia by a lot...
NATO military spending continues to dwarf that of Russia | Euronews
Non US NATO spending is 300 billion a year... and we are afraid of Russia and its 70 billion a year? Come on..