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 2/3 of our outstanding government debt. (07:14–07:27)
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