Oddly enough, re: NATO spending, the subject kinda' bothered me so I just went and checked. The 2% thing was agreed upon in 2006, near as I can tell in either prague or riga, though I
still can't seem to find the official text about the damn thing. Closest I've found is
this, in part 26 -- which says sod all about % of GDP, and specifies than the goal is to see an increase, or at least a halt or reduction in decline, in
real spending -- and a quick check of the raw dollar amounts indeed shows that most member stats have been holding steady, increasing to some degree, or only somewhat declined since at least '09, with another check suggesting it's about the same from '06 to '08.
In any case, it was not a minimum contribution agreement, or anything of the sort. It was an agreement to be trying to
reach that amount, guideline to a path forward, etc., so forth, so on. There was no substantiative commitment or penalties involved, it's not part of the NATO charter (in at least the sense of an exact amount being specified), and though I've already lost where I saw it, something else related to the agreement openly acknowledges that countries are going to fail to reach the goal.
Basically, while I'd easily agree that a more equal contribution is a desired goal and something I'd personally like to see just so the US has less of a reason to stick its dick into everything, this apparent insistence in holding NATO to a goal that both isn't solid, isn't penalized, and as near as I can tell actually being
met sufficiently for both the spirit and word of the agreement in question (particularly in relation to how the economic situation has been between '06 and now), is sketchy as all hell, and to a large extent (from what I've seen checking over a few of the news articles/summations/etc. trying to find the goddamn legalese) being badly misrepresented in its nature.
If someone can actually find the original agreement, and maybe any amendments et al that have popped up since '06, it'd be nice if they could share. Right now this is reeking of trump/conservative media spouting bullshit and the rest of the news taking up on it without checking what the hell was actually involved in that referenced amount.
E: Link was borked. Should be working now, but if not, look for the 2006 riga official text. If the 26 doesn't show up, give it a search for "decline", should get you right where the spending bit was at.