[hfsh]

And by 'pay more' he means 'buy more US weapons'. NATO is a conveniently captive market for the US arms manufacturers, and no way they're going to want to pull out of that while they still have stock to sell.

[tekknik]

you’re free to make your own weapons, plenty of NATO countries do.

[codersfocus]

Turkey bought Russian weapons and wasn't kicked out. They were barred from buying more US weapons for a while.