For decades, European NATO members curbed defense spending to fund other priorities. What remains, in the view of some US military experts, is a ’Potemkin Army’ that couldn’t stand up to an invader without American support.
  • davelAEnglish
    4·
    1 month ago

    The US MIL is going to make so much money, from countries with a receding industrial base thanks to increased energy costs, which were mostly self-imposed (if you exclude the Nord Stream sabotage, which was a casus belli by the very same arms salesman, but never you mind).

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆OP
      31·
      1 month ago

      Indeed, Europe is going to be in a panic after NATO loses in Ukraine and it’s going to translate into unlimited military spending at the cost of austerity. The oligarchs have always resented the fact that the European working class enjoyed a decent social safety net, and this will be a perfect excuse to dismantle it.