“Many countries owe us a tremendous amount of money for many years back. Where they are delinquent as far as I’m concerned because the United States has had to pay for them. Germany is totally controlled by Russia because they were getting from 60 to 70 percent of their energy from Russia and a new pipeline. And you tell me if that’s appropriate because I think it’s not. And I think it’s a very bad thing for NATO. And I don’t think it should have happened. And I think we have to talk to Germany about it. On top of that, Germany is just paying a little bit over one percent whereas the United States, in actual numbers, is paying 4.2 percent of a much larger GDP. So I think that’s inappropriate also. You know we’re protecting Germany, we’re protecting France, we’re protecting everybody. And yet we’re paying a lot of money to protect.” “NATO is an alliance of 29 nations and there are sometimes differences and different views and also some disagreements. But the strength of NATO is that despite these differences we have always been able to unite around our core task to protect and defend each other because we understand that we are stronger together than apart. Two world wars and the Cold War taught us that we are we are stronger together than apart.”