And yet Europe helped you out with your middle Eastern "adventure", losing men.

And besides, do you honestly think that the US is doing all of that to help out? The only reason your government is fine with European countries not hitting the target is because what you get out of it is more important than money (which is not even used for the defense of Europe): you have staging areas for whatever you need to do, you have easy access to new spheres of influences.

Unless you honestly believe that all of the nato thing is legitimately "to protect Europe in exchange of money" and nothing more... But that'd mean you're very naïve