Canada used to be NATO’s biggest headache for its chronic defense underspending.
Now, at this year’s summit, everybody agrees: Spain’s the problem, with Slovakia coming a close second in stoking anger among alliance members.
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s eleventh-hour insistence that his country doesn’t need to hit NATO’s new 5 percent of GDP defense spending target, and managing to get a carve-out in an agreement on the spending goal, has turned Madrid into the alliance’s new pariah.