Now they are. They got a lot of catch up to do. And Maria, to put it in perspective, The United States of America since 1980 has contributed $22 trillion more dollars or spent $22 trillion more dollars on defense than all of NATO. So roughly the same size population and we have spent 22 trillion more. That is two thirds of our outstanding government debt. (07:52–08:05)
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