Dutch Parliament opposed to Von der Leyen’s €800 billion European defense plan

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1. Articles like this are a great reminder not to take Reddit as your source of what countries want. You start to see the difference between Reddit and the real world.

   If you took Reddit and believed what, for example, /r/Europe said, then you would think that every European country is desperate to throw billions into militarising when the reality is we just want our government to take care of us.

   The average person is getting poorer and the rich people are getting richer along with the political class.

   The other day I was infuriated when I saw the so-called left-wing Keir Starmer cutting 6 billion pounds worth of desperately needed benefits in order to help pay for militarising.

   And I genuinely believe that if we had elections across Europe tomorrow, people would vote for the parties that prioritised spending on infrastructure and at home.

2. We must defend Europe, as long as it is someone else and paid by someone else.

   Seems par the course, which is why all the meetings and fancy words don’t mean nuch at all. Europe isnstill Europe.

3. It’s the extreme parties that have voted against the Eurobond part, not against the #RearmEU part. However this EU proposal can’t be stopped with a veto, so just barking no harm done.
   The PM spoke to the radicals, they need to shut up. Expectations are: They will loose big the next elections. Netherlands is one of Ukraine biggest donors (% per capita) and majority of parliament and society is totally OK with that.

4. We should remind them of this when May 10th comes around and see how their Russian lessons are coming along since they may need them before the decade’s done.

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