Germany Merz is jumping to 5% on defence spending

[arista]

[Defence Spending: Merz has backed a target of 5% of GDP
for total defence-related spending,
which includes 3.5% for core military procurement
and 1.5% for related infrastructure.]





He spoke live in Davos
an hour ago or so.

[bots]

[Defence Spending: Merz has backed a target of 5% of GDP
for total defence-related spending,
which includes 3.5% for core military procurement
and 1.5% for related infrastructure.]


Leaving the UK well behind.


He spoke live in Davos
an hour ago or so.

the uk is already at 5%. There are a dozen different ways it can be apportioned .... one of which is providing money to ukraine. So as a figure, it's pretty meaningless whoever says it

[Livia]

We're just about at the place we were in the 30s where everyone had screamed disarmament and the government listened and depleted our forces just prior to WW2. We never ****ing learn.

[bots]

We're just about at the place we were in the 30s where everyone had screamed disarmament and the government listened and depleted our forces just prior to WW2. We never ****ing learn.

we need to move to a war economy, but labour will never do that

[Livia]

we need to move to a war economy, but labour will never do that

Like I said, we never learn. We have more illegals than service personnel. Scary times... We could fit our whole army into Wembley Stadium. They'd all have a seat and eight thousand of them could bring a 'plus one'.

[Glenn.]

We need to get the patriot reform voters to sign up!