EU to Spend 5% of GDP on Defence

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/21/trump-nato-defense-spending-00416118
The 32-nation transatlantic military alliance will pledge to dramatically increase spending on defense to 5 percent of gross domestic product — 3.5 percent on hard military expenditures and 1.5 percent on more loosely defined defense-related efforts. The commitment, a watershed moment that could rebalance transatlantic security, will allow Trump, who’s been demanding Europe pick up more of the burden for its own defense, a significant victory on the world stage.

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I believe in 10 years we will see another example of “the law of unintended consequences”. I’d like to be wrong, but the thousand year history of Europe doesn’t augur well for “more military”.

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