US Edition2% to 5%: an Absurd and Crazy Race
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How have we gone, in such a short time, from being clear that 2% was unattainable for most NATO members to see how 5% is imposed and to live as a controversial exception for a member to stay at 2.1%? “Spain will need 2.1% of its GDP to acquire and to maintain all the staff, all the equipment, all the infrastructures requested by the Alliance to cope with these threats with our capabilities. Therefore, 2.1%, no more, no less.”
Pedro Sánchez has once again baffled citizens with an unexpected twist at the NATO summit in The Hague. After weeks of asserting that Spain would not meet the target of allocating 5% of GDP to defense, the president has signed an agreement committing allies to achieving that figure, contradicting his own statements. The decision, which entails an astronomical increase in military spending, has unleashed a wave of criticism and confusion, especia…
«That would be an absolute mistake for Spain. And we have not done so», he says in a press conference in which he attributes to the Armed Forces the...
Everyone sees what is happening in Palestine, what private equity is doing, and who benefits from an increase in the defense budget, right?
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