• ghost_laptop@lemmy.mlOP
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    1 year ago

    It’s something the US has basically enforced, it’s their excuse to things like military bases in Okinawa, which goes against Japan’s ideas of not having an army (even though the JSDF has broken this promise of sorts). More military spending it’s not going to bring any good to anyone, specially coming from Europe and its record, specially the Brits.

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      1 year ago

      More military spending it’s not going to bring any good to anyone, specially coming from Europe and its record, specially the Brits.

      Ask the Ukrainians how they feel about the Brits rn

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        1 year ago

        Ask any of this countries, also include a couple more, Argentina specially, and since we’re are it include all of Latin America since nobody wants them here, how they feel about the Brits. Ah, yeah, I forgot, one European country counts as x100 in contrast with a shitty third world country like ours in your book.

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      1 year ago

      We’ve had multiple presidents get on their soapbox about defense budgets in Europe. One fat orange man in particular. He’s a corrupt idiot but he wasn’t wrong about that. The NATO % GDP benchmark is not onerous. Only military capability will deter some actors as clearly evidenced most recently in Ukraine.

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        Only military capability will deter some actors as clearly evidenced most recently in Ukraine.

        the ukraine was invaded therefore more military spending would deter russians from invading the ukraine?

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          1 year ago

          Has Russia invaded a NATO country? No

          Should Europe have done more in 2014? Yes

          Would Ukraine have been destroyed if they hadn’t received training from NATO members since 2014? Maybe