Fawning for Trump’s favor, European leaders are ramping up military spending at the expense of public benefits.
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AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
This is dumb. European leaders aren’t doing it to please trump, they’re doing it because the US has become an unreliable ally and they need to become self sufficient in defense now.
njm1314@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Self-sufficient by buying American weapons and American weapon systems?
AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
Are you claiming that 100% of their defense budget is going to the US? If that’s the case then I’ll agree with you
HK65@sopuli.xyz 6 days ago
It is specifically mandated in the new defense spending act that it has to stay domestic
BrikoX@lemmy.zip 6 days ago
Blindly raising the % requirement doesn’t improve defensive or offensive capabilties. EU lacks production capacity, so they are entirely dependent on foreign powers. Increasing this limit, will just force them to buy foreign weapons to meet the arbitrary goal. The real goal of this “requirement” is like always to be benefit US domestic military industrial complex.
EU already spends more on militray than any other adversarial country, but a lot of it wasteful and inefficient. Instead of fixing that, they just are going to dump more, what a great idea…
AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
How else would they increase local production capacity, though? I’m sure some of the spending is going towards local producers
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 6 days ago
I wonder if it is both