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    Perché Trump non lascerà la NATO, ma il Belgio dovrebbe comunque preoccuparsi

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    2. Numerous-Plastic-935 on

      Dat idee van Bart De Wever om air defence te zetten rond de haven van Antwerpen wordt dan weg gelachen. Ik snap echt niet waarom. 1 halve bom van de Russen op die haven en half ons land ligt economisch voor jaren plat. Indien een chemie plant geraakt wordt zal deze hoogst waarschijnlijk zelfs nooit terugkomen naar België. Die bedrijven staan nu al op de rand van de exit.

      Ook zou inzetten op sabotage enzv niet slecht zijn.

    3. AtlanticRelation on

      For the last decades, we’ve been waving away concerns from our allies, not just the US but our nearest neighbors as well. Why invest in defense, and honor previous agreements when you can simply piggyback off of others and be a freerider, right?

      I’m not a fan of Trump’s crude, and at times brute, diplomacy, but you’ve got to admit that Trump slamming his fist on the table during his first term was a reaction that was long overdue for a lot of European NATO members. Our defense spending or, rather, lack thereof, is nothing less than giving the middle finger to our most important allies and partners on the international level.

    4. BelgianPolitics on

      It’s bizarre that after the deadly floods and big fires (e.g. Groot Schietveld, Kalmthoutse Heide), we still do not have any Chinooks. It’s one of the few military investments that would have significant civilian purposes.

    5. atrocious_cleva82 on

      Belgium should not be worried because being part of NATO protects us from a USA invasion. And we don´t have many rare earths like Greenland. /s

    6. Fabulous_Importance7 on

      Moving nato hq outside of Belgium should be a proper action. Let’s be honest, Belgium doesn’t deserve such privilege and attention.

    7. tomba_be on

      We should be worried, but our politicians are yet again our biggest problem. They’ll still come up with all kinds of bullshit excuses to prevent any proper investment.

      Left wing refuses to invest in defense, and wants to spend money on less important services, while also refusing to see where we can actually save money on government. Right wing wants to cut taxes instead of taxing the rich and doing something against the massive tax fraud setups that exist.

      We need someone that’s not a complete wimp to properly take care of our budget and put down priorities. We also need people to stop whining because we’re going to see some tough years. We can either take a couple of tough years now, or we keep messing about and we will have tough decades instead of years.

      It’s very simple imo. We start the budget by seeing how much intrest and debt we need to pay back this year. Then we add (at least) 2% GDP for our military spending. And only after that, we can see about everything else, right until we run out of budget. The time for slowly reducing our deficit is over. We could have spread this out over the last 20 years, but we didn’t. Now it’s time to make hard decisions.

    9. Due-Boss-9800 on

      Dat wordt weggelachen omdat de NVA jaaarenlang zelf Defensie heeft gekapotgemaakt onder het mom „dat moet europees”

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