NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg on Thursday released his 2018 report on the alliance. It offers new evidence that Belgium and Germany remain exceptionally pathetic NATO allies. This matters because NATO is an alliance on which much of the world’s security, prosperity, and freedom of the world rests.

Sadly, the Belgians’ and Germans’ actions continue to betray their words. At the 2014 NATO summit in Britain, every alliance nation formally agreed to move toward spending at least 2 percent of GDP on defense and at least 20 percent of their defense budgets on equipment procurement. What have Belgium and Germany done in the intervening years? Not much.