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Okay, what's your plan? You want Germany to roll over when Putin attacks? Germany should double that military budget :)
by benque 5y ago
Okay, what's your plan? You want Germany to roll over when Putin attacks? Germany should double that military budget :)
- markvdb 5y ago- German government defense spending for 2021: 46.8 * 10^9€ [0] - German government defense spending for 2022: >=100 * 10^9€ [1] quote from [1]: "Scholz said that the German government would allocate €100 billion earmarked for the German armed forces, the Bundeswehr, in the 2022 budget. "From "From now on, more than 2% of our GDP will be invested in our defense," Scholz said. Germany has previously been criticized for devoting less than the 2% mark on defense spending called for by NATO membership rules. The €100 billion will be allocated into a "special fund" for the German armed forces." [0] https://www.bundesregierung.de/breg-en/news/cabinet-budget-2021-1790544 https://www.bundesregierung.de/breg-en/news/cabinet-budget-2... [1] https://www.dw.com/en/germanys-reversal-on-ukraine-weapons-policy-response-to-putins-aggression/a-60932652 https://www.dw.com/en/germanys-reversal-on-ukraine-weapons-p...