[OC] NATO’s 5% spending goal: Effects and Costs

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1. Something that should’ve been done 10 years ago.

2. Fuck this. I don’t want my tax money spent on bombs.

3. 5% of gdp is not manageable longterm.

4. There are NATO countries whose annual revenues are 30% of GDP (like Albania, Macedonia, Montenegro probably). For these countries 5% of GDP means 15-20% of the total revenues. That’s crazy.

   It would be more fair if the spending goal is connected to the revenues instead of the GDP.

5. Was für ein herrlicher Benutzername!

6. There is no NATO unless Europeans actually have capable militaries. So right now, it’s safe to say about half of the countries that are nominally members of NATO actually aren’t. Such as Spain.

7. 5% is insane. The US would spend nearly an extra $500 billion, or $5 trillion over a decade. This is just a giveaway of taxpayer dollars to the defense and tech industry.

8. Remember when Polands PM asked why 500 million Europeans were asking 300 million Americans to help fight 140 million Russians?

   FYI, If you dont spend 2% to 4% of your GDP on the military, you can use that for social programs.

9. They won’t even bother raising it that high. The next NATO plan is just gonna be to throw eastern europe at Russia.

10. The funny thing about mass re-arms historically is that eventually nationstates generate a conflict to justify the spending whether or not the perceived threat actually materializes.

11. Protecting the country and ensuring its citizens’ safety should be the number one priority of any government. If you don’t prioritize that, you won’t have a country.

12. Imagine if we spent this money to work together to solve the issues humanity faces.

13. 5% is such a fucking waste for a countries not even at war lmfao. It does not take 5% of you GDP, every single year, to maintain the infrastructure to thwart an attack. If it takes 5% to maintain it in peacetimes, your military is an inefficient failure

14. It means more warmongering, profits for the ruling class, and more suffering for everyone else.

15. This is great. Especially to anyone that s worried about future wars with Russia or China.
    Having more of the western powers spend more on military, means it’s less likely either of those countries would pull some stupid shit that might risk sparking a war

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