Trump praises Nato states as summit prepares to lift defence spending target
Trump hails ‘big win’ as Nato states agree to raise defence spending to 5% of GDP
‘Nato’s going to become very strong with us,’ says US president, as secretary general calls him ‘daddy’
"as secretary general calls him ‘daddy’" Jesus, Ratte give it a rest
It's not something to be proud of, that's obvious.
But Rutte was not made secretary-general because of his personal pride. I wasn't happy to have him as prime minister, at all, for all those years, but he is very good at one thing: getting everyone in the room to agree and making everyone in the room feel heard.
This is how you get Trump to be enthusiastic about your project. He is using Trump's ego to get him om board with NATO. This is top-tier manipulation, and it's working!
Rutte is the perfect man for this job, and this is exactly why. No pride, no ego, just doing whatever it takes to keep the unity in NATO and to ensure we are strong enough to deter Russia.
5% is Insanity. That's right now 50% of the German State Budget.
Have they all gone stupid?
It’s actually not the worst idea, 5% is a lot, way more than needed, but it’s pretty decent to play catch up.
EU states are pretty far behind with their militaries, pumping it to 5% for a few years and dropping it back to 2-3% when we’re caught up with other superpowers seems like a good idea.
Which other super powers are going to attack us??
We will never spend enough to defend against USA, and China is not going invade us first.
And Russia just proved that it is a laughing stock that can't even conquer Ukraine with conventional weapons.
And surprise: against nuclear weapons everything is useless. And France and UK still have them themselves.
I'm all for modernising our armies, especially the German one. But that doesn't need more money thrown into the fire, but a big change on organisational structure.
And half our tax income that goes away? That is money away from school, poor people, everyone! Except the owners of military industrial companies.
Why is that insane?
No one says you can't also raise the state budget in general. No one says you can't make new debts to pay for it.
Neoliberals have simply manufactured too much consent to normalize austerity and demonize deficit spending.
As if you need more evidence that rutte is on washington's payroll
It costs nothing* to kiss some ass, it buys the US nothing, and yet it can get Trump (and thus the US) to support you. To do anything else would be irresponsible, TBH.
*Not even your pride, in this case, because everyone can see that Trump is the baby for needing it, and everyone knows you don't need to mean it.
Yeah, but I dont think we should trust anything trump says