Moscow has said NATO nations are essentially robbing their taxpayers to finance increased defense expenditure Citizens of NATO countries should accept “difficult choices” and “hard” spending decisions in order to divert billions into defense and military spending to deter Russia, top British and German military officials have claimed. In a joint op-ed for The Guardian on Sunday, Air Chief Marshal Sir Richard Knighton, UK chief of the defense staff, and General Carsten Breuer, the German chief