Does "badgering it and others to meet a defense-spending target" mean
"badgering Germany and other countries to meet a defense-spending target"???


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Not content with pressuring NATO allies to raise their defense spending to 2 percent of economic output, U.S. President Donald Trump proposed doubling the target.

Trump’s suggestion was informal and made in a closed-door session of a North Atlantic Treaty Organization summit in Brussels on Wednesday, but it did little to ease tensions at an already charged meeting.

The atmosphere in the hall “wasn’t the most pleasant,” Bulgarian President Rumen Radev told reporters, according to a transcript emailed by his office. Leaders were left “in a confused state,” wondering how serious Trump was and what the ramifications might be.

The suggestion added strain to a gathering that’s shaping up into a fight on several fronts, with Trump accusing Germany of being a “captive” to Russia over its support for the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, and badgering it and others to meet a defense-spending target that only five of the 29 NATO members currently meet.