On Sunday night, Germany’s ruling coalition reached a deal with its main opposition party on a major increase in military spending.
Shortly after Russia invaded Ukraine in February, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz pledged to increase military spending and proposed a plan to commit $107 billion to a special fund that will be spent over the next five years to bring Germany’s military budget to 2% of its Gross Domestic Product (GDP).
Talks on the increase in spending stalled, but now that the parties have agreed, the $107 billion fund will be brought to parliament and enshrined in Germany’s constitution. Scholz said the agreement “was the right answer to the turning point that started with Russia’s attack on Ukraine.”
The $107 billion in funding will bring Germany’s annual military budget from about $54 billion to about $75 billion over the next five years. Raising military spending to 2% of GDP has long been a NATO goal for its members. Under Scholz’s plan, Germany aims to reach the 2% goal as a multi-year average, meaning in some years Germany will spend more on its military than in others.
Scholz has come under pressure internally to send more weapons into Ukraine as he had been hesitant to send heavy equipment. Scholz has said that the German armed forces, known as the Bundeswehr, have run out of weapons to ship to Ukraine, and part of the investment is expected to go to arming Kyiv, although Berlin’s spending plans are not yet clear.
Now is clearly the opportune time for Germany to revanche its former military presence. Doesn’t seem like a good idea to me.
The Germans will be their own masters.Patriots.They will never surrender their sovereignty.America fights as the Zionists want. Even this Ukraine war is controlled by Zionists who still hold grudge to Russians
Which is funny, because Russia gave up 27 million souls during WWII, to assure the defeat of NAZIs and secure freedom for the men and women in the camps. There are records indicating Stalin constantly beseeching the U.S. to open up a second front because Russia’s army was having a hell of a time.
Ah German rearmament. What could go wrong?
$$$ isn’t Germany’s problem. They are a weak and broken people.
$21 BN per year doesn’t buy what the warmongers think it will; the germans will spend it on designing some new equipment (a new MBT, drones, some new stealth frigates for Baltic use, unmanned submersibles, improved ADA, a huge boost to their logistics capability including ammunition and spare parts supplies, hardened HQ and support facilities, some airlift, and MAYBE expansion of a couple extra maneuver brigades) and, of course, raising salaries and benefits.
It will improve Germany’s defense, but it’s not going to do much that could lead Germany to take a more interventionist role. They will spend their own money on stuff made there, for use there, and hope that they will get some of it back by increasing arms sales. Good for them.
They will have many visits from representatives of Raytheon Lockheed, Boeing, etc. They will be on the Germans like used car salesmen.
true; but other than the f-35, that i think they’ll feel compelled to buy, i think the germans are too smart for that.
Or they’ll put it all into tanks and dive bombers and invade Poland again. Maybe spin it as opening a second front against Russia. Then England can declare war on Germany and the US can stay out of it for awhile until the Japanese make a move on the Spratleys. Lets just get the nuclear holocaust over with.
The US empire is being chipped away a little at a time with each lost war. It took decades and two WW to end the British empire and to this day they have not accepted that their empire is gone. The Roman Empire took a long time too.
This could be good news in a long run… The more EU members build their own military, the less they need NATO to defend them. Therefore NATO will be weaken and eventually collapse…! And along with it one half of US hegemony…!