What Went Down At The CNN Democratic Debate

In 2015, the U.S. contributed $650 billion in defense expenditures to NATO, far more than any other alliance member. All European NATO members contributed just $234 billion that year. The extent to which the U.S. is carrying the load for NATO is also evident when expenditures are taken as a share of GDP: At 3.6 percent, U.S. expenditures are far and away the highest.

Clinton just said something that Donald Trump’s been saying lately — that other NATO members need to step up and foot more of the organization’s bill. Synergy!

The foreign policy portion of the debate is a funny one for Sanders — he doesn’t have much experience in this realm, and he’s going up against a former secretary of state. He went with echoes of his “judgement” attack from earlier in the debate, alluding to the Iraq invasion — not a time that Democrats remember fondly — when speaking about Clinton’s implementation of the president’s post-Gadhafi Libya plan.