Yes, we need a $1.5 trillion defense budget

Finally, the United States will follow through on its NATO commitments.

That’d be the cheeky interpretation of President Donald Trump’s announcement, via Truth Social, that he wants the U.S. defense budget to be $1.5 trillion. This would represent a stunning 50 percent increase over the current budget and put the U.S. right around 5 percent of GDP, the target level that NATO countries recently adopted at Trump’s insistence.