Aumentare le spese per la difesa o iniziare a imparare il russo, dice all’Europa il capo della NATO
https://kyivindependent.com/nato-chief-says-alliance-either-raises-defense-spending-or-can-begin-taking-russian-language-courses/
di Affectionate_Cat293
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Yeah that seems to be the situation, glad he gets it
i am okay with this
That should be enough money to invest in the european military industrial complex.
And we need to maintain the stores of supplies and ammunition, and the ability to produce them, to wage a possible protracted war. We currently dont have that, not even close. It needs to be built up.
Defence has been chronically underfunded across the continent for decades. The chickens are coming home to roost.
He’s not wrong, but also… Mark Rutte has been the prime minister of the Netherlands for 14 years and throughout his administration the defense spending was kept at an abysmally low level of roughly 1.1% to 1.3%. When Russia invaded Ukraine for the first time and shot down a plane full of Dutch citizens, the Rutte government kept the defense spending at a historically low level of 1.13% and didn’t increase it for several years. I’d say actions speak more about a politician than his words do.
It’s true, the average spending on EU countries in the cold war was 2.8% between 1973 and 1983, it should have jumped back up to that level as soon as Russia invaded Ukraine but as of 2024 it was still at 1.9%
https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/MS.MIL.XPND.GD.ZS?locations=EU
Europe should have been spending 2% at least a decade ago. The 2% target was agreed on in 2006.
things would have been so much easier if Russia didn’t have nukes
was there no way to denuclearize Russia and other states that emerged from the breakup of Soviet Union?
Not keen on learning Russian anytime soon—let’s just increase the defense budget and keep NATO strong..
Nah, considering the performance of the Russian army I think 2 percent are fine.
But seriously, we need to get to an efficient way to spend that money. E.g. one MBT design, one multi role fighter design, one infantry rifle, etc for all EU armies and not each managed by some consortium of competitors mostly interested in increasing their share of the cake.
Lucky for former members of warsaw pact they already know russian
Sounds like learning Russian would be cheaper.
It’s good to learn a new language.
Dumb headline. He talks about raising the agreed 2% level, not about anyone individually. It is not about the national defense budgets but to agree on higher standard levels to agree to.
Im ok with a standard existing, it shouldn’t be the case some nations like Poland need to spend so much while some of us are comfortable away from Russia.
I wish NATO would explain how Russia is actually going to invade Europe – especially Western Europe. In 3 years, the Russian Army has advanced something like 100 miles from where it started in Ukraine.
What – unseen in the Ukraine War – capabilities do NATO generals think Russia have that it would be able to unleash against Europe ? I’m not saying this to dismiss the threat posed by Russia, I’m genuinely curious.
I really think it would help with public opinion for Rutte to explain, in practical military terms, how would Russia be able, not only to destroy NATO’s militaries, but also to occupy all this territory.
True, but Trumps 5% demand is ridiculous.
Or… Start the defence union and reform the Article 4 and Article 5 TFUE in the Lisbon Treaty to make defence a shared competence.
We got so many achievements in European military and security/defence policies.
1)LIVEX
2)FRONTEX
3)PESCO
4)EDA
5)Rapid Deployment Force
Trump is basically trying to take territory of another nato country and they are scaring us with Russia, Russia doesn’t want anything to do with us, and with lands where Russian are minority.
I believe that we should even lower our military spendings, we have nuclear ☢️ warheads in Europe, nobody will attack us.
Russia is not scary and way more humanitarian than USA, they never dropped nuclear warheads on other countries, USA started bunch of wars in Middle East Libya Vietnam and Korea, in the lands that basically lay thousands of km from their countries.
If Trump tries to take over Greenland I will totally agree and support Russian military operation on Greenland
If EU countries raise defense spending it goes to the deficit, frugals pushed this. The risk is to bankrupt the country.
So he asks this from whom? US, UK and Turkey, or he forgot what his government did when was pm on the Netherlands.
I was betting on Chinese, ok raise spending but for our own industry not Lockheed while being squeezed out of Greenland. Spend it on Eurofighters and EU ai research.