It’s actually not the worst idea, 5% is a lot, way more than needed, but it’s pretty decent to play catch up.
EU states are pretty far behind with their militaries, pumping it to 5% for a few years and dropping it back to 2-3% when we’re caught up with other superpowers seems like a good idea.
We will never spend enough to defend against USA, and China is not going invade us first.
And Russia just proved that it is a laughing stock that can’t even conquer Ukraine with conventional weapons.
And surprise: against nuclear weapons everything is useless.
And France and UK still have them themselves.
I’m all for modernising our armies, especially the German one. But that doesn’t need more money thrown into the fire, but a big change on organisational structure.
And half our tax income that goes away? That is money away from school, poor people, everyone! Except the owners of military industrial companies.
Russia has the support of China, otherwise they would’ve lost already, so the answer to your question is china via russia.
Because we are competitors, it makes sense for them to have russia bleed us economically.
It’s actually not the worst idea, 5% is a lot, way more than needed, but it’s pretty decent to play catch up.
EU states are pretty far behind with their militaries, pumping it to 5% for a few years and dropping it back to 2-3% when we’re caught up with other superpowers seems like a good idea.
Which other super powers are going to attack us??
We will never spend enough to defend against USA, and China is not going invade us first.
And Russia just proved that it is a laughing stock that can’t even conquer Ukraine with conventional weapons.
And surprise: against nuclear weapons everything is useless. And France and UK still have them themselves.
I’m all for modernising our armies, especially the German one. But that doesn’t need more money thrown into the fire, but a big change on organisational structure.
And half our tax income that goes away? That is money away from school, poor people, everyone! Except the owners of military industrial companies.
Russia has the support of China, otherwise they would’ve lost already, so the answer to your question is china via russia. Because we are competitors, it makes sense for them to have russia bleed us economically.