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  • The Polish government’s plans to increase defense spending to 5% of GDP are portrayed as a push for confrontation

    That’s not unreasonable. The EU has more than enough weapons to face Russia. For how important this is, there is no chart showing our deficits. Russia knows the numbers, but the voters don’t. So why not be transparent enough to show that the budget is justified?

    We lack air transport capabilities but that doesn’t matter. We are supposed to fight a defensive war at home. We can transport tanks as fast to the Baltics by train or truck as Russia and if they are faster we still can overwhelm them with fighter jets.

    This leaves only one other reason for the spending on weapons in Europe: a willingness to help the US when they will isolate China.










  • US wants to make Europe into the same dystopia as US

    Absolutely. What people don’t understand is that the US have short term economic goals but long-term political goals.

    Shortsighted winning

    That is only important for their managers who are essentially their employees.

    But even businesses think long-term. Google has locked people deeply into their ad economy. Microsoft has given away Teams for free to now lock companies in.

    As long as Europe doesn’t find a way to balance the USA with China we are going to do what the US want.



  • Why propose it days before an exercise?

    Pyongyang has previously rebuffed Lee’s offers of engagement, criticising a deal for the US to build South Korea a fleet of nuclear-powered submarines and denouncing joint drills between the two allies.

    In a sign of continued sabre-rattling, North Korea fired a ballistic missile into the sea on Tuesday - the 11th suspected test so far this year - just days before a scheduled US-South Korean joint military exercise.