{"id":22578,"date":"2026-07-06T03:21:39","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T03:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/?p=22578"},"modified":"2026-07-06T03:21:40","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T03:21:40","slug":"u-s-to-nato-members-increase-defense-spending-immediately","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/2026\/07\/06\/u-s-to-nato-members-increase-defense-spending-immediately\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. to NATO Members: Increase defense spending immediately"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KABUL: The United States government has warned, ahead of the upcoming NATO summit, that member states of the alliance must increase their defense spending as soon as possible or face consequences, including reduced military cooperation and limitations on certain privileges.<br>According to U.S. officials, President Donald Trump expects all NATO members to meet the target of allocating 5% of their gross domestic product (GDP) to defense spending within the shortest possible timeframe.<br>At the same time, U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has initiated a review of the number of American troops stationed in Europe, a move that could lead to a reduction of U.S. forces in countries that spend less on defense.<br>Leaders of the 32 NATO member states are expected to meet at the upcoming summit to reaffirm their commitment to Article 5 of the NATO treaty and to decide on the continuation of military support for Ukraine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL: The United States government has warned, ahead of the upcoming NATO summit, that member states of the alliance must increase their defense spending as soon as possible or face consequences, including reduced military cooperation and limitations on certain privileges.According to U.S. officials, President Donald Trump expects all NATO members to meet the target of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":22579,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[73],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22578"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22578"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22580,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22578\/revisions\/22580"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}