[antimatter]

Also, see NATO members who can avoid defense expenditure because US is their defacto defense force.

[cryoshon]

which nato members are you speaking of? and, do they face any credible threat?

[ISL]

Ask any formerly eastern-bloc NATO member how they feel about Russian annexing portions of Ukraine and Georgia.

[comyesa]

How do they feel about what the NATO did with the Balkans?

[skh]

All of them except the UK, Poland, Estonia, and Greece. The ones that face credible threats are Poland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and to a lesser extent Norway. The Netherlands believes they are fighting a cyber war with Russia. Trump is correct when he says that the US is subsidizing European defense. The US does benefit from this but not in a direct monetary sense.