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This is John Batchel, a conversation with my colleague, Colonel Jeff McCausen, the United States Army retired, a NATO veteran about the meeting at the Hague.

Jeff credits Mark Rudy, the former Prime Minister of the Netherlands,

with very successfully managing all of the players in the NATO, 32 nations.

Spain wanted a waiver.

It got one.

Mr. Trump wanted to be satisfied with the rise in expectations of spending. He got it.

Well done, Mark Rudy. Here's Jeff McCausen to explain. A success for NATO is a success for the United States. More of this tonight. Well, it's unclear what they're going to buy. It's right,

John. It's three and a half percent will go directly to defense.

Of that, about 20 percent of that is supposed to be for hardware.

So we don't see the three and a half defense,

a percent on defense being spent on salaries and pensions and that kind of stuff.

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