Originally Posted by
ORAC
Scholz has just announced that Germany will now spend more than 2% of its GDP on defence every year from now on.
This will mean the Integrated Review claim that the UK is the second highest NATO defence spender no longer hold true.
Increasingly loud calls for the review to be…. err…. reviewed…
This, along with their decision to supply weaponry to Ukraine, is a very significant development. They have also announced , in addition to exceeding the NATO 2% of GDP on defence, a one off spend of 100 billion Euro's on the military. That's over twice the UK defence budget in one hit!