[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]

Originally Posted by 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.]


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]

Originally Posted by 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.

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

[Livia]

Originally Posted by bots

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!