On Wednesday, Trump allegedly told NATO leaders that if they did not meet their defense spending targets of at least 2 percent of gross domestic product by next January, the United States would consider withdrawing from the alliance, prompting an emergency NATO summit. After the emergency meeting, Trump told reporters, “I told people that I’d be very unhappy if they didn’t up their financial commitments substantially.”

Though some European leaders later claimed that an agreement to increase spending among member nations had not been reached, many of those same leaders asserted that their nations “must” spend more on their militaries and funding of NATO operations.

Promises from Europe of increased defense spending at Trump’s behest are already paying off in a big way for top US weapons manufacturers like Lockheed Martin. In an interview with Defense News, Bob Delgado — director of international business development for integrated air and missile defense at Lockheed – said the company is planning to double its production of Patriot missiles as orders from European nations, particularly NATO members, “explode.”