In 2020, it was estimated the US spent just over 3.7% of its GDP on defence - while the average for Nato's European members (and Canada) was 1.77%. During her talk, Prime Minister Marin went on to criticise some European countries' attempts at building closer ties with Russia in recent decades. "For a long time, Europe was building a strategy for Russia... to buy energy from Russia and to closen those economic ties, and we thought that this would prevent the war," she said. But she ...