While German Chancellor Angela Merkel continues to talk up increasing military spending, with an eye toward getting closer to long-standing US demands for 2% of GDP spending on their military, her main opponent for chancellor, the SPD’s Martin Schulz is vowing to go the other direction.
Schulz, the former President of European Parliament, says Germany’s commitment to NATO was not in question, but that Germany needs to be an advocate for disarmament initiatives instead of participating in a spiral of military armament.
Schulz went on to reject the idea of spending 2% of Germany’s GDP on the military, saying it would cause a “substantial financial burden” for Germany to make such a large increase, and that he would be willing to “strongly resist” President Trump’s demands for more spending.
Merkel had previously been seen as likely to retain her post as chancellor, though in recent weeks polls have tightened sharply, and Schulz’s SPD is now running neck-and-neck with the ruling Christian Democrats, raising the possibility of a leftist coalition after the vote.
He’s right of course, but Schulz is still a eurocrook scumbag who can’t be trusted.
One: the 2% goal is not a US but is a NATO demand. Second: it does not have to be reached until 2024 (I believe).
The SPD? The party that gave Kaiser Wilhelm the go-ahead to attack France? The party that gave Germany the murderous Friedrich Ebert who collaborated with the ultra-right? The party that approved the Eastward expansion of NATO after WW2? Every once-in-a-while it produces a Willy Brandt but not often enough to be considered consistently progressive. The SPD is a “rot angehauchte” middle class party.
I am not a fan of Merkel. However she has consistently refused to destroy Germany’s social network.
How about a quick history lesson on the US’s 40 wars of aggression since WW2 alone? It sounds a lot like you know pretty much everything from reading a book one time.
Germans are smart people and they’re likely safely distanced from the propagandists. This presents hope, even though there is nothing that can stop the US now. If Nato somehow becomes less than solid for US purposes of war, the US will do it alone.
Only the threat of MAD will stop that which has been planned for Syria and Iran since the fall of the Soviet Union.
Trust in Trump and the gawd that the US masters of manipulation won’t ignore MAD.
Even if Schulz got in, Washington has such a tight grip on European governments that he would soon face an ultimatum: toe the [US] line or die in a car or plane crash.
I hope this is good news ie not what antigovtrebel suggests below!!