Donald Trump’s call for NATO members to increase their defense expenditures to 5 percent of GDP and his new policy toward Russia and Ukraine have caused quite a stir among NATO members. 

Some NATO members, particularly former Eastern Bloc/Warsaw Pact members like Estonia, Lithuania, and Poland, are answering this wake-up call with vigor and vim. Meanwhile, even some previously miserly Western NATO members like Belgium are starting to pick up the slack.

However, other NATO member nations—or at least certain factions within those member nations—are being more vocal about what they consider to be Trump’s abandonment of Ukraine. They are manifesting that vocal displeasure in the form of partial economic boycotts. A prime example is Norway: one of that country’s major fuel companies has announced that it is cutting off its supply to the U.S. Navy to protest America’s new Ukraine........

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