Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez called NATO’s 5 percent target “unreasonable” and said Spain would hold its military spending at just over 2 percent of gross domestic product. Meanwhile, protests are growing among citizens of NATO member nations. On Tuesday, demonstrators marched through Slovenia’s capital to oppose NATO expansion.

Laura Vrhovnik: “This means for us that the remnants of social security that we still have — from kindergartens and schools to the collapsing health system, and now pension reform — all of this will continue to be eaten away at, supposedly, because we would rather OUT: give it to militarization.”